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"Neighbours vied with each other in offers of help. Baji Lal and Devaka were taken to one house. Sheikh Ahmed and myself went to another. The barber had recovered, and had quietly departed for his own home. "Next day I sent round word that all the villagers were to come to the usual place of public gathering, the widespread pipul tree.
When the wind blew strong, the cries were loud and insistent; when the blast came gently, the sobbing was low and wailing. "'I am distressed that so simple a thing could have caused such trouble. But in reparation I will undertake to build for Baji Lal and his wife a new home.
And, as I remarked at the outset of my narrative, an experience of this kind teaches that, if in judging our fellow men we are to be chary of condemnation, it behoves us also to be discreet in commendation." And so ended the Bombay trader's story. After an interval of silence, the voice of the Rajput chief spoke up: "What became of Baji Lal and Devaka?"
"So, after a brief good-bye visit to Baji Lal and his wife, I set forth on my journey. "Six days later I entered the bazaar of Punderpur. I went to a travellers' rest house with which I was familiar, to see whether I could glean any information as to the present whereabouts of Sheikh Ahmed, who, in his travels, I had discovered, had been making for this place.
Here, there is a glove left on the line by the editor of "Murray's Guide," to be picked up by some Scot or Irishman; I have not time just now. He says that Kirkee is interesting as being the scene of a splendid victory over Baji Rao II; his account is concentrated and interesting.
After learning these things, I took my leave, commending Baji Lal and his wife to the care of the constable, whose promise that nothing would happen to his prisoners until the patel's return I sealed with a handful of rupees. "This matter settled, I strolled back to the pipul tree beside the tank, thinking that it might be useful to pick up the remarks of the loiterers.
"After greetings, and a few remarks about the weather and the crops and the season's epidemics, I carefully broached the real purpose of my interview, for a prudent man will never divulge his thoughts to another until he knows that other's thoughts. "'I have just come from the house of Baji Lal, I said, in a seemingly casual way. "The barber's face instantly lost the smile it had worn.
And Baji Lal, whom this very minute you were about to murder aye, murder is an innocent man, and his wife a maligned woman. "And such is human nature, that they who a short time before had been so keen to see Baji Lal done to death, were now loud in their acclamations at his escape. "But the patel looked at me with lowering brow. "'Fine words, Chunda Das, but I do not see the Sheikh?
"'My children, I said, as I raised them up, 'were I not assured in my own mind that there is some grievous mistake, and that you can explain the mysterious disappearance of your guest, I should not be here by your side. But tell me your story, and I shall advise you to the best of my powers. "Baji Lal lifted his eyes, and gazed at me mournfully but fearlessly.
You are in search of some one. "'Truly I am, I replied, 'and it is a matter of life or death to find the man I am seeking. "Thereupon, without further preamble, I related the story of Baji Lal and the missing Sheikh. "At the end of my narrative Munshi Khyraz such was my host's name sat silent for a spell. I knew my friend, and allowed him his own time to make any comment.
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