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He grasped the fact that a young man who wishes to succeed in life must make himself indispensable. In course of time Pulin's industry and trustworthiness attracted the attention of Mr. Henderson, who confirmed him as clerk, with a salary of Rs. 35.
He was obliged to admit that the payee's name, as also the amount in words and figures, seemed to be in his handwriting. "Yes," rejoined the manager, "and the signature is very like my own; but it is a forgery. Do you hear me, Babu, a forgery!" To Pulin's disordered senses the room, with its furniture and Mr. Henderson's angry face, seemed to be turning round.
Pulin did not emerge from this ordeal with credit, and the boys concocted a written complaint of his shortcomings, which they despatched to the Secretary of the School Committee, The answer was a promise to redress their grievances. At 10.30 next morning Kaliprasanna Babu entered Pulin's classroom and stood listening to his method of teaching English literature.
Pulin clasped his hands in a mute appeal for mercy, whereon Rámtonu stepped forward. "By Jove," remarked the latter, with great surprise, "here's some one has been copying my signature and Pulin's writing too!" All eyes were now bent on the incriminating document.
But every cup has its bitter drop; and Pulin's was the persistent enmity of the head clerk, who bore him a grudge for ousting his wife's nephew and seized every opportunity of annoying him. This trio so managed matters that all the hardest and most thankless work fell to Pulin's lot. He bore their pin-pricks with equanimity, secure in the constant support of Kisari Babu.
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