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21. SILENCE AND SPEAKING

Once upon a time, when Brahmadatta was king of Benares, his chaplain was tawny-brown and had lost all his teeth. His wife committed sin with another brahmin. This man was just like the other. The chaplain tried times and again to restrain his wife, but could not. Then he thought, “This my enemy; I cannot kill with my own hands; but I must devise some plan to kill him.”