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payment. The officer said, “Look, it is only half-past nine, the bank will open at 10.30 a.m. I will get cash from the bank and I will pay you personally by eleven o'clock. Until then my servant will be sitting here. I have to go because I have some urgent work in the office. You need not at all worry about the money.”
Saying this, the officer went away from there. The merchant waved his hand to suggest to the servant to sit down and he sat down. The merchant began to wait for the officer. The clock struct eleven. It struck twelve. Every now and then the merchant looked at the road but the officer did not turn up. The merchant did not even go home to take his lunch. He thought, "If I am not in the shop when the officer comes how can he give me the money? He will not wait for me. If he goes back with the money where can I search for him? Therefore, it is not good to go away from the shop. Today, I shall take food only once, that is, in the evening. It does not matter." The merchant kept waiting for the officer. The clock struck three. Now, the merchant remembered that the bank would have closed at 2-30 p.m. He thought with fear, "The officer has not yet come. Will he ever come ?”
The servant was sitting there. The merchant asked him, "Where is your officer? Where does your officer live? What is the phone number of his bungalow ?" The servant said, “Dear sir, I know nothing about him."
The merchant said, "Why do you say so? Are you not his servant ?”
The servant said, “Dear sir, I was searching for a job. The officer who came here by the jeep told me to sit in the jeep if I wanted a job. He gave me a uniform and asked me to wear it and said that I was his servant from today. I wore the uniform. He left me here and went away. That is all I know. Just as you are waiting for him, I too am waiting for him.” G.S.-9
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