In the 1966 edition,
Keer said that Savarkar gave Dhingra a nickel-plated revolver on the morning of Wyllie's assassination
and told him,“Don't show me your face if you fail this time.”.
When Sir Curzon Wyllie, political aide-de-camp to the Secretary of State for India,
was leaving the hall with his wife, Dhingra fired five shots right at his face, four of which hit their target.