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Rh "Have you seen whether any traveller is coming along behind you?"

Nobokumar replied in the negative.

The woman again asked, "How far is the chuttee?"

Nobokumar said, "I can't say, but it must be close at hand."

The woman said, "How am I to sit in the fields alone with you in the darkness; I must go with you to the chuttee. I think I can walk, if I had something to lean upon."

Nobokumar said, "It is folly to be modest at a time of danger. Lean on my shoulder."

The woman was not foolish. So she went along leaning on Nobokumar's shoulder.

As a matter of fact, the chuttee was quite close. At that time robbers did not fear to commit crimes of violence quite close to