THE WRECK
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"It's only your digestion that's out of order," put in Annada Babu, "just biliousness. You try one of the pills that I take -"
Hemnalini smiled and interposed : "Now, dad, you want all your friends to take those pills, but I've never seen any one the better for them."
Annada. "No one has been the worse for them, anyway. I've found by experiment that no other pill that i've ever taken has done me so much good."
Hemnalini. . "Whenever you start taking a new kind of pill you find it the most marvellous panacea for the first few days."
Annada. "You people won't believe what I say. All right, just ask Akshay if he has benefited by my treatment or not."
Hemnalini dropped the subject, fearing that Akshay might be called in to corroborate. The witness, how- ever, appeared at that moment to give his testimony unsolicited and the first remark that he addressed to Annada Babu was:
"You'll have to give me another of those pills; they have done me a power of good. I feel extraordinarily fit to-day."
Annada Babu brought a glance of triumph to bear on his daughter.
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