CHAPTER XIII.
sixth year.
Mâdhabi Nâth informed Bhramar of her husband's discharge from gaol, and of his disappearance, leaving no clue by which to trace him. When her father left her Bhramar wept bitterly, though why I cannot say.
Meanwhile Gobind Lâl, on his release, went to Prasâdpur. He saw that the house had been stripped, and that no one was there. He heard that some five or six men had plundered the house of all that was in it, and what they had not carried off had been sold as unclaimed property. Only the house remained, and even that had been stripped of the door and window frames. Living for a day or two in the bazar, Gobind Lâl sold the remaining brick and woodwork for a trifling sum, and with this money went to Calcutta.
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