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CHAPTER XLVII

The information which he had received from Chandra Mohan afforded Akshay much food for thought.

"What can be at the bottom of it?" he asked him- self. "So Ramesh has been practising at Ghazipur, has he? He succeeded in covering his tracks pretty well! What can have induced him to throw up his practice and to have the effrontery to show his face again in this street ? He's bound to discover sooner or later that Annada Babu and Hemnalini are in Benares; then he'll make a bee-line for the place."

Akshay resolved to visit Ghazipur in the meantime and to collect all possible information there; after that he would proceed to Benares and seek an interview with Annada Babu.

It thus happened that on a December afternoon shortly afterwards Akshay might have been seen alighting at Ghazipur, bag in hand.

He commenced operations by tackling the shop- keepers in the market and asking if any one knew the address of a Bengali pleader named Ramesh Babu; but exhaustive inquiries convinced him that no lawyer of that name was known to the local tradesmen.

He next tried the courts, which had just closed for the day. A beturbaned Bengali pleader was on the point of stepping into his carriage when Akshay ac- costed him with the remark, "Excuse me, sir. I'm looking for one Ramesh Chandra Chaudhuri, a Ben- gali pleader who came here recently; do you happen to know where he lives?"

He was informed that Ramesh had lived for some

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