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"That is what I am doing. I have got the chance to serve the person who has saved my life. Should I let go that chance? No Dharan! You go away. I I will not add to the stock of my sins. by doing evil to my saviour. I am not so low. I have a sense of gratitude."
Maurik ultimately forced Dharan to free. Dharan came to the bank of a river. He sat there and thought:
"The thief must have put the bag. near me. He must have kidnapped my wife. He would have even made her his wife, forcibly.'
Again he had an idea: 'No, Lakshmi is not so wicked. She must have surely resisted. Then....in that case.... the thief must have perhaps killed her! But thieves are interested only in the precious objects; they don't kill.
Is it possible that he must have loot
