OH LIFE "I MUST SURVIVE" (EPISODE TWENTY- TWO)

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…be a great shame to return with a blind wife. I did the most-wicked thing. I ran away from Jarin. I left her alone and blind in this big city without a kobo. Why I did it, I don’t know. Perhaps the fear I had made me lose my senses.

“I went round and round the city. I did not have a particular place to go. When it was night I went into a cheap hotel and took a room.

“The following day it was the same story. I could not sit in a place. I just kept moving. I did not seem to know what I was doing. I must have gone crazy. But it was for a short time. I returned to the hotel and slept.

“That night my senses came back. I woke up in the morning and realized what I had done. I ran back to our house where I had left Jarin alone. Everything was in its place but Jarin was not there. I went wild shouting “Jarin! Jarin!” but Jarin was nowhere to be found.

“I ran out and went to the police station to report. I went round the town. I went to the motor park but there was no one like Jarin. At last, exactly a week after I left her I saw Jarin in a corner by the road side. She was begging for her living.

“I might have gone to her to take her home but I did not. I knew Jarin would not have me again. She had lost her pride for a week and would rather die than go back home with me without her pride. Jarin had a strong mind. I knew that the game was up.

“I packed out of the hotel and took a room and parlor in the house in which you joined me. I did not go back to my good job. I was ashamed because many of them would know that my wife had become a beggar. I did not want anything to connect me with Jarin. I still fear the powerful chief.

“I took a job as a mason with another company. I was a brick layer before I grew to become the foreman in my Company. I went back to the trade as a daily paid worker. No one knew me there and though I was paid less than half of what I got as a foreman. I was happy. My pay was enough for me to live upon.

“Then I met you and married you. You were so good that you did not ask me about my past. The rest of the story you know”

“But did you see Jarin after that?” asked Adia.

“I saw her very often, “he answered.” But I did not let her know. I often dropped a large sum of money into her bowl. I knew when she had her baby. I know the midwife who took care of her. I watched the baby grow. I would know Tesa among a thousand girls. I was able to recognize her when you brought her home.

“I grew wild when I saw her. She was the last person I hoped to see and in my home too. I thought the devil was after me and brought her here. Once again like before, I lost my senses. I thought Tesa would bring me ill-luck. I couldn’t think well. Once again I ran out.

“I went into the same cheap hotel. It was still there. I was given the same room, which I lived before. I did not like it because it seemed that a strange power was after me. I left the following and took a room in the cool camp area.

“I came back from work one day to hear a lot of noise in the room next to mine. Then I heard the voice of children calling for help. I listened again and I was sure…to be continued on Thursday.

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