202	THE GREAT MOGUL.
	than far-off Delhi, for they were then at the head of their respective governments to the north and west of Golconda. One of them refused Emir Jemla's offer of adding his master's dominions to the empire of Shah Jehan in return for the loan of an army, but the other accepted the proposition. The name of him who accepted was Aurungzeb, third son of Shah Jehan, and the most perfidious prince within the four corners of India. The allied chiefs did not waste time, but ar­rived before Golconda so unexpectedly that Abdullah had barely time to save himself by retiring to his not far-distant hill-fortress. In­deed the King himself threw open his gates to the enemy, for Aurungzeb gave out that he came as ambassador from the emperor Shah Jehan, and the King was within a hair-breadth of fall­ing into the hands of the treacherous ambassa­dor when he received timely warning and saved himself by flight. With a courtesy which Tav-ernier finds passing graceful the fugitive King