Life as I have Seen It

Author(s): Urmila S Dholakia
Publisher: Urmila S Dholakia

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Life As I've seen it
I asked around again. In our compound there are thrée ladies hostels that face each other. I called the other hostel's night peons, and in secrecy started interrogating him. Out of all of the peons, one of them spoke up and told me that on the same night the incident had occurred, he had seen our hostel's peon discussing something with the University's security guard outside the door of our hostel. That's it!! With the strength of this truth, I felt God was helping me to achieve justice in this incident and I will be successful in getting to the bottom of it for the girls. I again called our peon to my home and I took him into confidence and asked him to tell me to the whole truth. I told him,. I've figured out all of the details and if you try to lie about anything you'll be caught red handed. If you tell me the truth, then I will ensure that you are not punished for what you have done. I promise you that. If you make any excuses and don't tell the truth you'll get further entangled in the issue and it'll get much worse for you. Then once the university knows about what happened you'll likely lose your job.
You have no option but to tell me the truth, and by doing so you'll save yourself from the police.
He took heed of my words and started sobbing. Ben, please save me, if this gets out I'll lose my job and everything and I will end up a street beggar. You are compassionate, and therefore I trust you that you'll save me from my fate. Today I will tell you the full reality of what
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