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136 hearing of her child's illness, became very much distressed. She poured forth a torrent of abuse upon Bhramar's mother-in-law, a lesser amount upon her husband, and, weeping, determined that bearers should be sent the next day, with a palanquin and attendants, male and female, to bring Bhramar home. Artfully saying nothing of his daughter's illness, Bhramar's father wrote to Krishna Kanta, saying that her mother had become very ill, and begging him to send Bhramar to see her, instructing the servants to the same effect.

Krishna Kanta was placed in a difficulty. Gobind Lâl was coming, and it was not the thing to send Bhramar away, yet if her mother was ill it was impossible to refuse. After some consideration he sent Bhramar home, with the stipulation that she should be absent only four days.

On the fourth day Gobind Lâl arrived. He heard that Bhramar was at her father's house, and that a palanquin was to be sent for her that night. He understood it all, and felt deeply affronted. "So little faith," he thought. "She has thrown me over without consideration and without