So I had to bring it in notes."
"Tell me truly, Amulya, swear by me, where did you get this
money?"
"That I will not tell you."
Everything seemed to grow dark before my eyes. "What terrible
thing have you done, Amulya?" I cried. "Is it then ..."
"I know you will say I got this money wrongly. Very well, I
admit it. But I have paid the full price for my wrong-doing. So
now the money is mine."
I no longer had any desire to learn more about it. My very
blood-vessels contracted, making my whole body shrink within
itself.
"Take it away, Amulya," I implored. "Put it back where you got
it from."
"That would be hard indeed!"
"It is not hard, brother dear. It was an evil moment when you
first came to me. Even Sandip has not been able to harm you as I
have done."
Sandip's name seemed to stab him.
"Sandip!" he cried. "It was you alone who made me come to know
that man for what he is. Do you know, sister, he has not spent a
pice out of those sovereigns he took from you? He shut himself
into his room, after he left you, and gloated over the gold,
pouring it out in a heap on the floor.
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