Page:Krishna Kanta's Will.djvu/141

144 coming back," and went straight to the house of his physician. The doctor was astonished. Gobind Lâl said, "Please to bring remedies quickly, Mahâshoi, my uncle's state is not at all satisfactory." In great haste the doctor took up a lot of pills and accompanied Gobind Lâl. Krishna Kanta was somewhat alarmed at the sight of the two in his room. The Kabirâj felt his pulse. The old man asked—

"Is there any danger?"

The doctor answered, "When is the human frame free from danger?"

Krishna Kanta understood. He said, "What time have I?"

"When I have given you physic I shall be able to say."

The doctor pounded the physic in a mortar and approached the patient to administer it. Krishna Kanta took the vessel containing the medicine in his hand, touched his head with it once, and then threw the contents into the spittoon.

The doctor looked distressed, and Krishna Kanta said, "Don't be troubled. It is not at my age that physic will cure me. In place of physic, call on Hari if you would