The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-26

what narm did my only daughter
do to your father? You were "a child
then. perhaps you don't know. Then
listen to the story. Don't be impa-
tent. my child. There is a grim hui
NOR in IL:
When my on-in-law stole my
daughters ornaments and ran away
TO London YOU were just Il child then.
You may family remember OF the
trouble we had in the n%eighborhood
when he returned home after Ave
years. You may not know anything
about IL, either. for you were then in
school in Calcutta.
o father. as the leader Of the
community, salt to me: II YOU are
thinking OF sending your daughter to
her husbands home. then YOU shall
never I've able TO take her back to
yours. begged Of him on my knees
TO protect me in the ~predicament. I
promised to make the boy do pen
ances TO reinstate him into the caste.
but your father stood stubborn, ana
could not sacrifice my only daugh-
ter.
so ] left home and my caste peo-
pie. n built "A little home in cal
cutta. Here, too. I felt the rigors Of
the communication. When every
thing was ready for the marriage 81
my nephew your father Influenced
the brides parents and broke IN,
match. And ! promised by my
Br.lhminic birth to take revenge
Perhaps YOU now understand "A bit
of the situation, but wait "A little. I
feel that you will he glad to know tn,
entire story-there il some romance
in IL.
"When you were in college there
lived beside your house an old Brah.
min 10y the name of Bipradas Chat
t~erjee. The old man is dead now.
There lived in that house a helpless
but pretty young widow by the name
OF kushum. She was adopted by the
family. even though she was OF the
kayastha caste.
"kushum was really pretty. The
old Brahmin had II hard struggle o.
keep her away from the view of tn.
college students. But II was not diif
cult in h least for a young girl
tn throw dust into the eyes of an old
man. h girl quite often went on
the roof to dry family clothes. and
you. III course, could not memoriz,
your lessons unless you SAT on the fiat
roof of your house.
you know well whether you talked
together from each others roof OF
not. But the old man became suspi.
cious of kushum from her deport.
ment. For. she Don began 10 max,
mistakes in her work. and felt dis
inclined To eat or sleep. One evenin,
she could not resist her tears. ever
, before the old man.
AT last the old man discovered tina
every now and then YOU tive met OF
the roof. lie also found out that 70
. even kept yourself away from col
, lege, and sat in "A shady corner of tn,
, roof. a book in hand, such was YOU
: devotion to study IN solitude. Whei
= Bipradas came To me for advice | sal,
= tn him:
Uncle. you have been thinkin,
4, for some time 10 20 on a pilgrimag,
| 7 to the holy city of Benares. You bet
= ter go now. You may leave the gir
with me. | shall take fun charge O
her
: "Bipradas went on the pilgrimage
| kept the girl with SriInti Chatterje
r and passed him as her father. Yo
know what happened afterward.
I really feel happy to-day to tell 70
her story in length. 1t seems so niue
: like a novel.
II have been thinking OF putin
" the details together into book form
: But | can't write well. MY nephe,
Is a writer. more or less. | shall max
him write the novel. but it would b
best II you two can write togethe
n for the conclusion of the story is nc
well known TO me"
Hemanta was not mindful Of III
last words of Pyarisankar. and said
Didn't Kushum object to the mate
= in any way
1T is very hard TO say" said Pyar
sankar, whether she had any obje,
u tion 10 the match or not. You know
my child. how the minds Of wome
u work. When they say No you ha,
to interpret IL as yes
For the first few days in her ne
: home she was half mad without bein
: able to see you. II appeared that 20
- soon found out her whereabouts. III
quite often you lost your way nea
= thai house on your way To colleg
20 books in hand, and you pretended
search something before Sripati
home.
IL could never think that you Wei