Then followed, "I have received your letter. The property is yours. If even it were mine, I gave it to you. You may remember the deed of gift you destroyed before you left. But a copy of it is in the Registry Office. The gift was accomplished, it remains valid.
"Therefore you can without impediment return to Haridrâ and take possession of your property. The house is yours. Moreover, in these five years I have saved much money. That also is yours. Come and receive it. Out of this money I beg a small portion. I have taken 8,000 rupees from it. With three thousand I will build myself a house on the banks of the Ganges, the remaining five thousand will support me. Having made and settled all arrangements for your coming, I shall go to my father's house and shall live there until my own is ready. It does not seem likely that you and I will meet again in this life. I am satisfied that it should be so, and I do not doubt that you also are pleased. I await your second letter."
In due time this missive reached Gobind Lâl. What a terrible letter! no atom of
