Sadhu. Let me steal, and you bring me before the Court as a thief. I will make the confession; they will put me in prison, then I will be best able to serve my master.
Nobin. O Sadhu, thou art the actual Sadhu (the honest man). Ah! you are now very anxious on learning the deadly illness of Khetromany; and the sooner I can take you home, the better.
Sadhu. (Deep sigh) My eldest Babu! Shall I see my daughter on my return? I have none other.
Bindu. If you make her take that draught which I gave you, she must be cured by that. The Doctor heard every particular of her disease, and gave that medicine.
Enter the Deputy Inspector
Dy. Inspector. Bindu Babu, Mr. Commissioner has written very urgently about releasing your father.
Bindu. There is no doubt the Lieutenant-Governor will grant him release.
Nobin. After what time can the notice of the release come?
Bindu. It will not be more than fifteen days.
Dy. Inspector. The Deputy Magistrate of Amaranagara gave an order of imprisonment for six months to a certain Mooktyar according to this law, but he had to remain for sixteen days in the gaol.
Nobin. Shall such a time ever come, that the Governor, becoming friendly, will destroy the evil desires of the unfriendly Magistrate?
Bindu. There is a God, the Lord of the Universe; and he must do it. Sir, you had better start, for there is a long way to go.
Dy. Inspector. Alas! The two brothers burnt up by these anxieties have, as it were, become dead, while living. The order of release from the Lieutenant-Governor will be as the resto-
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