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these things the guard's eyes were filled with tears. He went slowly out of the Court. Vasanta Tilaka was eagerly waiting for his return. When she saw the guard returning with shaky steps and with tearful eyes she began to shake with doubts and fears. The guard approached them and stood near them with a bent head.
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"Did you meet the king? What did he say ?"
The guard had no reply to these questions. He found no words to utter. He stood still and silent.
"If the king has sent any message you can convey it to us without any hesitation", Anjana said.
"The king's orders are that you must at once.. found it impossible to say what he had to say.
"That I must get away from here. Is it not so?" Anjana said completing the sentence which the guard had left incomplete.
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"Yes, dear princess ! That is the king's order", the guard said with his voice choked with emotion. Though he tried his best to control his grief he could not. He began sobbing like a child covering his face with both his hands.
Anjana said nothing more. She took Vasanta's hand in her hand and walked away from there.
The sun seemed to be pained by this sight; so as if unwilling to see her anguish he concealed himself behind a vast cloud. The sky became dusky. The winds became still. For a few moments, nature seemed to have contracted from her circumference. Everything in nature seemed to have come to a stand-still.
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