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Rh reaching the top of the tree." The sister-in-law approaching Binod, said to him—"Brother, further delay in getting the ornaments made will not look well. I met the bride's aunt yesterday, and she enquired if the ornaments had come yet."

Binod said—"Do you wish to drive me away, sister-in-law? You are a friend indeed!"

"I quite understand, brother; but you must do something to satisfy the family. Go early in the morning to Calcutta, spend the day there; buy the gold, call in the goldsmith, give the measures, and charge Abala Didi to see them done, and then return by the evening train, which gets in here about midnight. I will leave food for you in your bedroom."

"How wise you are, sister-in-law!"

It was arranged that early the next morning Binod should go to Calcutta. Evening fell;