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wife, Khadija, whom I loved."
This is what Osman the bullock-boy told the detectives, who had been badly shaken by the Sarpanch's deposition: "At first I was in great fear of drowning myself. Still, I was searching searching, mainly for her, Ayesha, whom I knew from before her alteration. And just at the last, I saw it happen, the marvellous thing. The water opened, and I saw them go along the oceanfloor, among the dying fish."
Sri Srinivas, too, swore by the goddess Lakshmi that he had seen the parting of the Arabian Sea; and by the time the detectives got to Mrs. Qureishi, they were utterly unnerved, because they knew that it was impossible for the men to have cooked up the story together. Mishal's mother, the wife of the great banker, told the same story in her own words. "Believe don't believe," she finished emphatically, "but what my eyes have seen my tongue repeats."
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