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enjoying pleasures. She required money for her fashions and pleasures. She could not get any money from her friends. She entertained a strong desire to secure money by hook or by crook. She also found a way. She decided to earn money by selling her sexual favours. She was prompted to take recourse to this ignoble method by her lust and her need for money.
The girl had to go to a college hostel to meet her boyfriend. That young man happened to be a friend of her brother. But the young man did not know it first. "This girl is my friend's sister". When he found it out, he became careful. He told his friend everything and said: "Your sister is my sister, and she must be prevented from going on this evil path. We must think calmly about it; and tactfully prevent her from going on this path. She has thought of taking recourse to this method only for the sake of money. If I refuse her advances, she will seek the company of someone else. Her life will be ruined".
The girl's brother thought seriously; and said to his friend : "Let her come to your room. I will lie on your bed covering myself with a bed-sheet. Then, you will see how we can find a way out".
At the specified time, the girl came to the hostel. She entered the room which she had to enter; and then bolted the door from inside. Step by step, she approached the cot. The young man was lying there covering himself with a bed-sheet. The girl slowly removed the bed-sheet from his face. Soon after seeing his face, she stepped back shocked and horrified. She was stupefied. Her body began to shake with fear. She was flabbergasted.
THE BROTHER SAVED THE SISTER FROM SIN
Her brother got off the cot. He went and stood near her. He said slowly, "I know why you have made bold to do such a terrible thing. But you never cared to think of your future or the future of your family. You thought of your own physical pleasures. You needed a lot of money because only if you have money you can indulge your fancies and pleasures. Only if you
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