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 Sundari. How could I know that you would help?

Pratap. Why, don't you know that I owe every thing to Chandra Shekhar?

Sundari. Yes, I know it. But it is said that people forget their past when they become rich.

Pratap got annoyed—he became agitated and left the place without a word. Sundari was much delighted to find Pratap so angry.

On the next day Pratap left for Monghyr with only a cook and a servant. The name of the servant was Ramcharan. He left home without telling any one where he was going. To Rupashi only he said, "I am going in search of Chandra Shekhar and Shaibalini. I won't return till I find them out."

The house in which the hermit left Dalani, was Pratap's lodging, at Monghyr.

During the few days Sundari was with her sister, she abused Shaibalini to her heart's content. In morning, in noon and in evening, Sundari would adduce to Rupashi thousands of arguments to prove that Shaibalini was the greatest of world's sinners and the most unfortunate of her class.

One day Rupashi said, "Quite so, but then, why do you trouble yourself so much on her account?"