Later Mughals v1.c6.s10.14

v1.c6.s10.14

The Prince fell at once into the snare and resolved to strike first. He wrote a note to Rustam Dil Khan, inviting him to take part in drafting a reply to the letter received from Bahadur Shah, of which we shall speak presently. Early in the morning, before the sun had risen, Rustam Dil Khan, took his pen-case and repaired to the Prince's quarters. Kam Bakhsh told him to send away the crowd and sit down with his writing materials in the praying tent where, as soon as he (Kam Bakhsh) had eaten his breakfast, he would join him. Then they would confer and draft the reply to Bahadur Shah. Rustam Dil Khan, free of all suspicion, took off his weapons, as he did daily, and went into the tent. In a moment Kam Bakhsh's men, seizing the unsuspecting subahdar and his sons, placed them in confinement.