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Updated: May 2, 2025
So helpless are we women, we needs must place on others the burden of our danger. When we go to our death we drag down those who are about us. I had said with pride that I would save Amulya as if she who was drowning could save others. But instead of saving him, I have sent him to his doom.
I threw my shawl over the jewel-case with a rapid movement. "The special-talk business not yet over?" he asked with a sneer in his tone. "Yes, we've quite finished," said Amulya apologetically. "It was nothing much." "No, Amulya," I said, "we have not quite finished." "So exit Sandip for the second time, I suppose?" said Sandip. "If you please." "And as to Sandip's re-entry." "Not today.
"Never, Sister Rani! I brought them back for you. You shall not give them away to anybody else." "I accept your gift, my little brother," said I. "But let him, who hankers after them, satisfy his greed." Amulya glared at Sandip like a beast of prey, as he growled: "Look here, Sandip Babu, you know that even hanging has no terrors for me. If you dare take away that box of jewels ..."
Why cannot the stricken one be kept far away from the rest of the world? I, at least, have realized how terrible is the contagion like a fiery torch which burns that it may set the world on fire. It struck nine. I could not get rid of the idea that Amulya was in trouble, that he had fallen into the clutches of the police.
"I have a letter of yours, and several of Amulya Babu's." I could not see that the letter marked "urgent" to which I had been hurried into writing a reply was wanted urgently for this purpose only! I am getting to learn quite a number of things. The point now is, that the police must be bribed and hush-money paid to Mirjan for his boat.
She must have left me in sheer disgust at my qualms and she was right! While I was tingling all over with these reflections, a servant came in and announced Amulya, one of our boys. I felt like sending him away for the time, but he stepped in before I could make up my mind.
Alas! had I not said "Why not?" to Sandip just in the same way? The poor lad's confidence could rouse no hopes in my mind. "How will you do it?" I asked. The wild plans he began to unfold would hardly bear repetition outside the pages of a penny dreadful. "No, Amulya," I said severely, "you must not be childish." "Very well, then," he said, "let me bribe those watchmen."
"You need do nothing at all, Amulya, I will see to the money," I told him finally. When he had almost reached the door, I called him back. "Amulya," said I, "I am your elder sister. Today is not the Brothers' Day according to the calendar, but all the days in the year are really Brothers' Days. My blessing be with you: may God keep you always."
One finds no time to stop it: it is like trying to resist a thunderbolt: the lightning flashes: it laughs at all resistance. I left the room. As I was passing along the verandah towards the inner apartments, Amulya suddenly made his appearance and came and stood before me. "Fear nothing, Sister Rani," he said. "I am off tonight and shall not return unsuccessful."
Get away to Calcutta by the night train. And bring me the money by the day after tomorrow positively." Amulya took a diamond necklace out of the box, held it up to the light and put it back gloomily. "I know," I told him, "that you will never get the proper price for these diamonds, so I am giving you jewels worth about thirty thousand.
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