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Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in "Benmore" porch by a policeman especially once when he was abused by a Naik he had himself recruited from Isser Jang village or, worse still, when a young subaltern called him a pig for not making way quickly enough. But the life had its compensations.
But Ram Dass went into the Courts with the papers and the bonds all correct and took out decrees against the landholder; and the name of the Government was across the stamps of the decrees. Ram Dass took field by field, and mango-tree by mango-tree, and well by well; putting in his own men debtors of the out-town of Isser Jang to cultivate the crops.
Now no man, not even the little children, could at one glance see which was Ram Dass and which was Durga Dass. But all the people of Isser Jang may they die without sons! said that we were thieves. They used much bad talk, but I took money on their bedsteads and their cooking-pots and the standing crop and the calf unborn, from the well in the big square to the gate of the Montgomery road.
So far as manufactories go, the difference between Chicago on the lake, and Isser Jang on the Montgomery road, is one of degree only, and not of kind. As far as the understanding of the uses of life goes, Isser Jang, for all its seasonal cholers, has the advantage over Chicago.
I cried again, saying: 'By the Cow by the Oath of the Cow, by the Temple of the Blue-throated Mahadeo, I and I only was beaten beaten to the death! Let your talk be straight, O people of Isser Jang, and I will pay for the witnesses. And I tottered where I stood, for the sickness and the pain of the beating were heavy upon me.
At that time the sister of my father came away and lived with us in Isser Jang; for a man must above all see that his folk do not die of want. When the quarrel between us twain came about, the sister of my father a lean she-dog without teeth said that Ram Dass had the right, and went with him.
In truth, this man has been grievously beaten, and his brother has taken the money which the Court decreed! Oh, bunnia, this shall be told for years against you! The jackals have quarrelled, and, moreover, the books are burned. O people indebted to Durga Dass and I know that ye be many the books are burned! Then all Isser Jang took up the cry that the books were burned Ahi!
He took his books, and his pots, and his Mark, and became a bunnia a money-lender in the long street of Isser Jang, near the gateway of the road that goes to Montgomery. It was not my fault that we pulled each other's turbans. I am a Mahajun of Pali, and I always speak true talk. Ram Dass was the thief and the liar.
But my friend's assertion somehow thoroughly suited the grotesque ferocity of Chicago. See now and judge! In the village of Isser Jang, on the road to Montgomery, there be four Changar women who winnow corn some seventy bushels a year. Beyond their hut lives Purun Dass, the money-lender, who on good security lends as much as five thousand rupees in a year.
I am a Mahajun of Pali in Marwar, and an honest man. This is true talk. When we were men, we left our father's house in Pali, and went to the Punjab, where all the people are mud-heads and sons of asses. We took shop together in Isser Jang I and my brother near the big well where the Governor's camp draws water. But Ram Dass, who is without truth, made quarrel with me, and we were divided.
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