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but we never forgot our old friends. We always remembered them in our letters and shared our good fortune with them, even from such a distance. We shall be made as happy and comfortable there as we were in Bombay."
A fellow passenger who had been sitting with a morose face heard their conversation. Hoping to unburden his grief by talking about it, he said: “I, too, am on my way back to Delhi. But how I wish I could look forward to it with the anticipation you have shown! When I migrated to Bombay and soon made my fortune, I gave myself up completely to the gay life of this city and never once thought of the place of my birth or of my friends of old. Now that I am in difficulties, I have thought of it and of them for the first time. Although I am going back, I really don't know where I shall stay on an empty purse, and to whom I can turn for aid."
At that moment, a man who was handcuffed and was accompanied by two policemen, entered the compartment. When questioned by the other passengers, one of the constables said: “We are on our way to Delhi. This man is from there. He escaped to Bombay some years ago and continued his nefarious
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