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At first he forbore to question her, but one day he followed her and finding her in tears, he said, "Tell me, why are you sad and downcast? Have you wearied of this garden, and are you lonely here; or is it that you no longer love me?" "Dalim Kumar," answered the girl, "I love you as dearly as ever, and I am never lonely with you.
As long as we had no child I was content to stay here in the garden and see no one. But now that we have a son I wish him to be seen by your people, and I wish them to know that he is the heir to the kingdom." At this Dalim Kumar became very thoughtful. "My dear wife," said he, "you are right. Our son should be known as my heir; but every one believes I died long ago when I was a child.
Now at the very time this happened Dalim Kumar was with his mother playing about in her apartment. But no sooner did the man in the jungle begin to dig about the tree than the boy gave a cry and laid his hand upon his heart. At the same time he became very pale. "What is the matter, my son?" cried his mother anxiously. "Are you ill?"
Presently Dalim Kumar came down the steps of the temple and took Surai Bai's hand. "Who are you, beautiful one?" he asked. "Whence come you, and what is your name?" "My name is Surai Bai," answered the girl, "and I come from another country far away. My mother left me sitting by the gate while she went to find a lodging for us, but some noise frightened me, and I ran in here to hide."
She knew not what miracle had brought him back, but she fell upon his neck and kissed him, and wept aloud, so that all in the palace heard the sound of her weeping. The Rajah was sent for in haste, and when he came Dalim Kumar quickly made himself known to his father. The Rajah's joy was no less than the Ranee's over the return of his son.
Duo scattered peas and grain on the floor for them, and they came and ate them. Then one day she caught two or three of them. Soon after Dalim Kumar missed his pigeons and began calling them. Duo leaned from her window. "Your pigeons are up here," she cried. "If you want them you must come up and get them."
Then she said: "The beggar told me that under the roots of that same tree that bore the fruit lies buried a golden necklace, and it is with that necklace that part of your life is bound up." Now that Dalim Kumar knew the secret he was content, and smiled upon his mother and caressed her, and ate some of the sweetmeats she had prepared for him. Then he ran away to get his pigeons.
But when he entered the gates no one knew him, for when they had last seen him he had been only a boy. They wondered to see a stranger enter in like a master, but his air was so noble, and his appearance so handsome that no one dared to stop him. Dalim Kumar went at once to his mother's apartments, and though no one else had known him, she recognized him at once, even though he had become a man.
"No, she has never told me that, and moreover I do not believe it." "Nevertheless it is so," said Duo. "If you will find out what this thing is and come and tell me you shall have your pigeons again, and if you do not do this I will wring their necks." Dalim Kumar was greatly troubled at the thought of harm coming to his pigeons. "No, no! You must not do that," he cried.
"I wish to know where your life lies and in what object it is bound up." Dalim Kumar was very much surprised. "I do not know what you mean," said he. "My life lies within me, in my head and my body and my limbs, as it is with every one." "No, that is not so," said Duo. "Has your mother never told you that your life is bound up in something outside of yourself?"
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