Afterward “The Wolf,” whom Bahá’u’lláh condemned in His Lawh-i-Burhán (“Tablet of the Proof”) and called “the last trace of sunlight upon the mountain-top,” saw the steady decline of his prestige and died miserably, in acute remorse. As for his accomplice Mír Muḥammad-Ḥusayn, Bahá’u’lláh stigmatized him as the “She-Serpent,” and declared him to be “infinitely more wicked than the oppressor of Karbilá.” This man was expelled from Iṣfahán, wandered from one village to another, and finally sickened and died of a disease so foul-smelling that his own wife and daughter could not bear to attend him.

Years later the Governor, Ẓillu’s-Sulṭán, was exiled to Geneva. In 1911 when ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was at Thonon, staying at the Hôtel du Parc, Ẓillu’s-Sulṭán came there. Hippolyte Dreyfus, distinguished scholar and traveler, the first French Bahá’í, had met him in Persia, visiting him in his tent when the prince was on a hunting trip. Now he saw him again, on the terrace of the hotel. M. Dreyfus described the meeting to Juliet Thompson, who arrived the following day, and she has recorded it in her diary: “The Master too was on the terrace, pacing up and down at a little distance. Hippolyte was standing in the doorway when he saw Ẓillu’s-Sulṭán coming up the steps. The prince approached and greeted him, then turned a startled look