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Pundit Chaubey was known to the villagers. On receiving a reply confirming that the Pundit was living at the address given, the Englishman wrote to him asking for information as to whether he had been married, and if his wife was still alive. The Pundit replied that his first wife had died on a certain day, which proved to be nine months before the birth of Shanto Kumari. Following this correspondence, the Pundit wrote to his brother at Delhi asking him to go and see the little girl. The brother did so, and she related to him the story of her life as Pundit Chaubey's wife, giving many details as to the family, and describing the furniture of the house and the books which her "husband" loved, without hesitation or error, the brother being in a position to check the points mentioned.
Finally, the child told him that when she was married she had hidden a small sum of money beneath the tiles in one of the rooms at Mutra. The money was found in the place indicated. In consequence of his brother's report, Pundit Kidar Nath Chaubey went to Delhi on November 13 (1935), with his son, the child of his first wife, and accompanied by his second wife. On their arrival at the house of Rang Bahadra Mathur, the little Shanto Kumari recognized
