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EMPEROR VIKRAMADITYA Next day around midnight Vetaal came hissing in anger
O rascal ! You
have deceived me after a promise
of friendship. Tricked a friend ?
What trick ? I have done
nothing.
Today you have neither placed plates full
of dry-fruits and sweets nor spread perfumes and flowers to welcome me ?
Then get ready for a duel. I will at once send you to the other world.
Q
The hard earned wealth of the public is not to be
wasted thus.
Idiot ! When you can neither add nor subtract even one second from my
life, where from would you get the power even to scratch me ? Here, take it !
At these words from Vikram, Vetaal understood Vikram's cunning. He said
So ! That is why you asked me about your life-span yesterday. Friend! You are, indeed,
very clever
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