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14 not permit you to please yourself in the matter."

Yet more angry, Krishna Kanta returned, "Hara Lâl, if you were a child I should call in the Guru and get him  to give you a caning."

"When I was a child I set the Guru's beard on fire. Now I will serve that will in the same way."

Krishna Kanta made no further reply; he tore up his will, and had another drawn out, in which he gave half to Gobind Lâl, five-sixteenths to Binod Lâl, one-sixteenth each to the widow, to the daughter, and to Hara Lâl.

Enraged at this, Hara Lâl left home for Calcutta, whence he wrote to his father to this effect—

"The Calcutta Pandits say that widow marriage is allowed by the Shâstras. I have resolved to marry a widow. If you choose to change your will, giving me half the estate, and will have the new will registered at once, I will give up this design. Otherwise I shall marry a widow very soon."

Hara Lâl thought that his father, becoming alarmed, would change the will, and assign