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114 at the banquet than the King again asked Esther what was her petition. Esther preferred a request for the salvation of herself and her people, and she also informed the King that a design was laid for the destruction of both. In answer to the King’s angry request, she told him that Haman, then present, was the author of the wicked plot. Rising with wrath from the banquet the King walked into the adjoining garden; then Haman fell before the Queen supplicating his life. In this posture the King found him, and choosing to put the worst construction on his position, he gave his orders, and the servants immediately covered Haman’s face, and hanged him on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai. The royal command being thus immediately executed, all Haman’s goods were given to the Queen, who appointed Mordecai to be her steward in the management of the riches thus secured. The same day the King was informed of the relation which Mordecai sustained