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Rh glanced upwards and their eyes met. Whether these eyes held converse together I don't know, or if I know, I don't care to say; but I have heard that eyes do talk together.

At this moment Rupo obtained the attention of his master, and informed him of the visitor. The bâbu asked where the gentleman had come from.

"I do not know."

"Why did you not ask before you came to tell me?"

Rupo saw that the was making himself appear a simpleton, and, his intelligence coming to his aid, said, "I did ask, but the gentleman said he would tell you himself."

"Then tell him I shall not see him."

Meanwhile, Nishâker began to fear from the delay that Gobind Lâl had refused him a meeting. "Why," he thought, "should I be civil to an evildoer? Why should I not go up myself?" So, without waiting_for the servant's return, Nishâkar re-entered the house. He found neither Sonâ nor Rupo in the lower rooms, so, unhindered, he proceeded up the stairs to the place where were Gobind Lâl, Rohini, and Dânesh Khân,