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The wicked counsel pleased Haman, and he caused the gallows at once to be made.
CHAPTER III.
CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF ESTHER.
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Persian Records—Malice Defeated—Pleading of Esther—Punishment of Haman—Triumph of the Jews.
That night King Ahasuerus could not sleep. Those peaceful slumbers which the meanest of his subjects could enjoy, fled from the eyelids of the monarch. It does not appear, however, that the rest of the despot was destroyed by any thought of the thousands of innocent families doomed by his caprice to destruction. Unable to obtain sleep, the king ordered that the book of records should be brought and read before him; and as he listened to the account of the events of his reign, the conspiracy of his servants, and the means by which the dangerous plot had been discovered, were brought to the remembrance of the monarch.
“What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai?” said the king.
“There is nothing done for him,” was the reply.
“Who is in the court?” asked Ahasuerus.