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On getting the letter his wife left for Peshawar and reached there safely. The barrack was about 15-16 kilometres away from that station. On getting down at the station, the young lady hired a horse-drawn carriage. she was young, beautiful and powerful too. The Punjabi women are not at all physically weak. During their childhood days, they are made to suck milk from the udder of the buffalo. anyway, the young lady went to hathimaidan all alone and there being no other passenger, she agreed to bear the total fare of the carriage. The carriage went on. The driver of the carriage was a Pathan. On starting the carriage, he began to think that the lady was going all alone, that she had a lot of jewellery on and that she was young. While thinking so, he was overtaken by an evil design. after having driven the carriage for a certain period, he made his carriage go down to a field and stopped. The lady asked, “Why did you stop your carriage?” in reply, the driver said, “The fodder for the horses has run short. Wait till i collect it from the nearest village.”
after the driver had left the carriage, the lady sat therein, waiting for him to come back. after a while, she saw two Pathans coming towards the carriage, followed by the driver. Both the Pathans were stoutly built. Besides they had swords in their hands. The lady could easily realise that they were coming there with an evil design. she got afraid but did not lose her wits. she shouted out to the driver, “Make your cart go faster because i am already late.”
The driver said, “Our cart has now been captured by the dacoits. Once released, i will start my carriage.”
Both the Pathans ordered the lady, “Take off all the jewellery, worn by you and then we will let you off.”
The woman realised, that if she declined to do so, they would forcibly rob her of her ornaments. Getting down from the carriage, she began to take off her ornaments and began throwing them to the dacoits. The second dacoit said, “Never think that you will be freed after you have taken off your ornaments. You have to go with us.”
adversely circumstanced though, the lady was not out of her wits. she thought of a way out. When she saw both the dacoits
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