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One day Jhinu opened up, saying: “Naresh, we will need some money to go to Bombay.”

“How much?” I naturally asked, “I will ask my father for it.”

“Oh no, don’t do that. No one will give any money for such a thing. You have to take it. Do you know where they normally keep it?”

 

And Jhinu sounded right too. Who would give you such an amount just on asking? And what would we do without money? And what if we failed to depart for Bombay? Our plans would all be foiled! All that I needed was a little money to enable me to make a lot of money! But then, Jhinu had already warned me against disclosing our plans to anybody. As for me, I knew where in my house was the money kept. I made him wise of the place where my mother used to keep money. I well knew that there always was some amount kept in the milk-closet, and I told him so.

 

“But how much money will there be in a milk-closet?” Jhinu asked wisely.  “Isn’t there any other place where money ‘and the like’ is normally kept? Even Nānu has brought some ornaments from his house.” — Nānu was one other member who had agreed to join our ‘film-flight’. The other two expected to join us were Ramesh and Amrat. — And from the sale of the golden ornaments that Nānu had brought, three hundred and fifty rupees, I was told, were derived. “If you can bring some money, Naresh, we can have some more money that can help free us from any trouble. Once we are in Bombay, money won’t be a problem any more. We will have lots of it. What we need is enough of money to cover our railway fare. And yes, we will need a pair or two of decent clothes. We cannot wear ourselves indecently there.”

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