Then they dismounted to cook their rice, and went to the house of an old woman to ask for a light with which to light their fire.  Now this old woman had seven sons and they were all robbers and murderers; and six of them had killed travellers and carried off their wives and married them.  When Kuwar and the princess came asking for a light the seven sons were away hunting and when the old woman saw the princess she resolved to marry her to her youngest son, and made a plan to delay them; so she asked them to cook their rice at her house and offered them cooking pots and water pots and firewood and everything necessary; they did not know that she meant to kill Kuwar and unsuspiciously accepted her offer.  When they had finished cooking Kuwar asked the old woman whether she lived alone and she told him that she was a widow but had seven sons and they were all away on a trading expedition.  The old woman kept on looking out to see if her sons were returning, and she had made an arrangement with them that if she ever wanted them she would set fire to a small hut and they would come home at once when they saw the smoke rising.  But before her sons came back Kuwar and the princess finished their meal and paid the old woman and mounted Piyari and gallopped off.  Then the old woman set fire to the hut and her sons, seeing the smoke hurried home.  She told them that a beautiful girl had just left who would make a suitable wife for the youngest of the brothers.  Then the brothers tied on their swords and mounted their horses and went in pursuit.  Kuwar and the princess knew nothing of their danger and rode on happily, but presently they heard horses neighing behind them and looking round, saw men riding after them with drawn swords.  Then the princess said to Kuwar “Our enemies are upon us; do you sit in front and let me sit behind you, then they will kill us both together.  If I am in front they may kill you alone and carry me off alive.”  But while they were thinking of this the seven brothers caught them up, and began to abuse them and charge them with having set fire to the house in which they had eaten their rice, and told them to come back with them at once.  Kuwar and the princess were too frightened to answer and they had no sword with which to defend themselves.  Then the robbers surrounded them and killed Kuwar, and they said to the princess “You cannot stay here all alone; we will take you back and you shall marry one of us.”  The princess answered “Kill me here at once, never will I go with you.”  They said “We shall take away your horse and all your food, will not that make you go?” But the princess threw herself on the dead body of Kuwar and for all they could do they could not drag her off it.  Then the murderers said to the youngest brother “She is to be your wife:  you must pull her away.”  But he refused saying “No, if I take her away she will not stay with me, she will probably hang herself or drown herself; I do not want a wife like