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.