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may have even changed his mind in the matter of killing Champak. After all he is bis son-in-law. Champak is sleeping here. He is not going to escape from here. So let us once again go to the Sheth and get his confermation."
All the watchmen liked this suggestion. So they went to ask Vrudhdhdatt. Destiny is like a cloth which is not seen when it is being woven. Its warps and woofs are woven in the brain or the mental loom of the weaver. It can be seen by others only when it is completely woven. The watchmen were therefore driven by distiny to go to ask Vrudhdhdatt.
Vrudhdhatt in.mediately said :
“Oh ! Where is the need to ask me ? Go at once and kill him. Throw down his dead body in a well.”
When the watchmen went back, they saw that the cot was empty. Champak was not there.
