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Rh would not have occurred. In discussion the truth must have appeared. Bhramar would not have been so much mistaken. She would not have been so angry, and the ruin arising out of this anger would not have befallen.

Gobind Lâl having set out for home, the Naib sent word of the fact to Krishna Kanta. This news, coming by post, reached the Kartâ four or five days before Gobind Lâl was due. Bhramar, hearing that her husband was returning, again sat down to write. She covered four or five sheets with ink, then tore them up, and after two or three hours succeeded in writing a letter. In it she said to her mother, "I am very unwell; if you can have me home for a bit I can return refreshed. Don’t delay, if the illness increases I shall not get better. Send to-morrow for me if you can. Don't say anything here about my being ill." This letter written, Bhramar secretly, through the agency of Khirodâ, dispatched a man with it to her father's house.

If instead of her mother others had read this letter they would have divined that some ruse lay concealed within it. But the mother,