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Most of the boatmen had been won over to refuse to carry foreign goods, but the chief of them, Mirjan, was still insubordinate. "Could you not get his boat sunk?" I asked our manager here. "Nothing easier, sir," he replied. "But what if afterwards I am held responsible?" "Why be so clumsy as to leave any loophole for responsibility?
Mirjan understood the whole thing. He came to me in tears to beg for mercy. "I was wrong, sir " he began. "What makes you realize that all of a sudden?" I sneered. He made no direct reply. "The boat was worth two thousand rupees," he said. "I now see my mistake, and if excused this time I will never ..." with which he threw himself at my feet. I asked him to come ten days later.
"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.
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