"If you, oh princess, submit not to my desires, it is my determination to put your eldest child to death."
The princess on hearing this became so affected as to be deprived of speech.
When the Pepáteh again repeating his threat in a solemn manner,
She replied, "what would you have me say? Whatever may be the will of God I must submit. If my child is to die, how can I prevent it?"
The Pepáteh, on hearing this, forthwith drew his sword, and slew the child, again demanding of the princess whether she would submit to his desires? To which she answered, "No!"
He again urged her: but the princess hanging down her head was silent, and in the hope that God would give her resolution, her mind became more easy.
The Pepáteh then shaking his sword before the princess, again urged her to submit, threatening that if she refused he would slay her second child.
But the princess could only reply, "you must act as you say, if it is the will of God that you should do so."
He then slew the second child, and again urging her to submit, threatened, in case of refusal, that he would slay the third child, then at her breast.
Snatching the child from her arms, he put his threat into execution, and the blood flew on the mother's face, on which she swooned and fell to the ground.