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34 The Adhicary eyeing her affectionately said "Don't go. Rest a while. I have a request."

"What you mean?"

"Since these eyes saw you, I have begun to call you mother and I can swear by the feet of the Goddess that I love you more than my own mother. Won't you keep my request?"

"Certainly, I will."

"My only request is that you must not get back there any more."

"Why?"

"If you go, you are undone."

"That I know too."

"Then what makes you question again."

"Where am I to go, if not there?"

"Go forth into otherland in company of this stranger."

Kapalkundala remained silent.

"What gives you furiously to think over it, mother?" asked the Adhicary.

"When your disciple came, you urged the immorality of my accompanying, as a young maid, another young man. Bnt why do you tell me to do so again?"

"Then your life was not in jeopardy. Besides, the opportunity, which was lacking men, might prove golden now. Come, let us have the sanction of our Mother.

Saying this, the Adhicary holding a lighted lamp in his hand issued forth and went over to the temple porch and opened the door. Kapalkundala, also, went