With tender hands she arranged the saree, draping it well over his headto conceal his face. Then giving him a ghurra (water vessel) told himto pretend that he was going to fetch water from the river. Cheewhiteby her courage, he caught her to his heart in a mute farewell, andher prayers went with him.

He had not gone far from the house when cries arose of "There heis!" But some one shouted: "It is a woman. Look elsewhere." And hepassed sluggishly to the river. Here he flung the brass ghurra far outinto the stream and ran for his life along the bank. No sounds ofpursuit followed him, and he now gained courage enough to form aplan of escape. Not far from his father-in-law's village was a littlepolice station. Thither he bent his steps and asked protection ofits solitary occupant.