To-day all my sorrow is ended.
I am not dead. Again I have come to serve you."
Could delusion last longer? Nagendra embraced Surja Mukhi, and laid
his head upon her breast. Together they wept; but how joyous was that
weeping!
CHAPTER XXXVI.
EXPLANATION.
In due time Surja Mukhi satisfied Nagendra's inquiries, saying--
"I did not die. What the _Kabiraj_ said of my dying was not true. He
did not know. When I had become strong through his treatment, I was
extremely anxious to come to Govindpur to see you. I teased the
_Brahmachari_ till he consented to take me. On arriving here, we
learned you were not in the place. The _Brahmachari_ took me to a spot
six miles from here, placed me in the house of a Brahmin to attend on
his daughter, and then went in search of you: first to Calcutta,
where he had an interview with Srish Chandra, from whom he heard that
you were gone to Madhupur. At that place he learned that on the day we
left Haro Mani's house it was burned, and Haro Mani in it. In the
morning people could not recognize the body. They reasoned that as of
the two people in the house one was sick and one was well, that the
former could not have escaped from want of strength; therefore that
Haro Mani must have escaped and the dead person must be myself.
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