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Besides your parents do not like me, so do not talk about marrying me.

Rihik said: Do you want to marry immediately?

Rohana said: I do not want to right now [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] since your parents do not like me. 

Rihik said: Let us be married then we can go to Sandakan. I can get a good job there. Jokingly he said: We will leave at 2 today.

Rohana said: Why do you want to return [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] to Sandakan when you just returned from there. My parents will be looking for me if I go to Sandakan with you.

After Rihik had been in the house for about an hour, Rohana said: Why did you come to see me? I shall call my parents to come and talk to you.

Rihik said: These are my last words to you. I am leaving, but do not marry another man while I am gone. When the time is four o'clock, you should consider yourself a widower.

Rihik then descended the stairs to the first floor of the house. While Rihik was outside standing among the flowers in the back, Rohana was finishing her ironing upstairs

She heard some launches pass, so she went to the window and lookedout. As Rihik stood among the potted bougainvillias, he thought: I have decided to kill myself, and if I do not, I will have my own shame and cowardice to live with. He drew his pistol after a few minutes of thought, and fired it into his chest. He [[strikethrough]] died immediately [[/strikethrough]] did not die immediately, and called Rohana to him. 

Rohana said: Are you crazy? Why did you shoot yourself?

Rohana held Rihik's head in her lap. He said: You should behave now as a widow and not marry. Now I will die.

Rohana held her hands to her cheeks, and began to cry. She said: Are you going to die?

Rihik said: Yes, I am going to die. Please do not marry another man. I shall wait for you in the spirit world. I consider you now as my widow. You tell [[strikethrough]] your [[/strikethrough]] my mother and father [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] that because of them, I have died. I had enought money to marry you but they would not permit it. This will be my last time to talk with you.

Rohana continued to cry: I will call my relatives to help you.

Rihik said: Please do not call your relatives. This will be our last time together.Please do not marry another man. Consider yourself a pigeon widow (Sweetheart of a dead man.)

Rihik repeated: Do not marry another man. I shall wait for you in the grave.

At [[strikethrough]] night o [[/strikethrough]] nine o'clock a.m. he died. After his death, a launch went immediately to Sitangkai to tell his parents. His mother was wild with grief: If I had had my way, I would have allowed him to marry Rohana. The father beat himself and said: Why did I not allow Rihik to marry that woman?

When the parents arrived at Sioutu, the father said: We would have permitted