What's her mistake ? - 35

She rushed to him. She called him by his name.

May be his mind was tuned to her voice. He opened his eyes. He recognized the anxious looking Dammu!

“Come let’s go. I will search for a vehicle. We will reach the nearest hospital! You look very ill!!” she exclaimed and her words tumbled out one after the other.

He smiled.  He beckoned her to come nearer. She bent her right ear nearer to his lips.

Out came the story. Dammu could barely make out what it is. But she understood what happened. It even replied some of her queries about her whereabouts before she had reached these dwellings.

The friend whom her husband’s brother believed turned out to be treacherous. Actually it was not his mistake too. Dammu’s husband’s first wife had a firm grip over the whole situation. She had known that that person was the only close friend of her husband’s brother. She also knew that her husband’s brother will go for him for help. With the help of her large number of goons, she had captured him before he went in his jeep to meet Dammu and her husband’s brother. This was revealed by him before he was caught and tied up by the goons.

The roughish people who came with her husband’s first wife had mercilessly killed him. Her husband’s brother had put in a valiant fight to save his friend. But he could not succeed. The friend had succumbed to the wounds he got inflicted by the goons. In the bargain, even her husband’s brother got badly wounded.

The birth of the child took place. He could not know the gender of the child. Some goons along with the midwife and her husband’s first wife left the dilapidated house where Dammu gave birth to a child.

Dammu was given a heavy sedative orally. She lost consciousness for quite some time. The balance goons took both Dammu and her husband’s brother from that place and left them in the house where Dammu had regained her consciousness.

He had tried to wake Dammu in vain. The medicine must have been very strong. He was afraid that Dammu may die. He was badly injured in the stomach by a rusted sword. When he could not wake Dammu, he decided to go to a nearest village and get some medical help for her.

He had gone by a slow walk for a few hours. He fell down and crawled till he found the village. The village chief took pity on him and tried to get some immediate local medicine applied on his wound.

It looked as if the wound needed attention of a better doctor.

Dammu was aghast to know that he is wounded that badly. She felt very much indebted to him that he tried to get medical help for her while he himself was very badly injured.

The first wife of her husband was wrong! This man is good. Whoever goes out of their way to help others even though they are not in a position physically to help are good people!

She tried to make him sit so that she could something to help him.

“No, don’t try to lift me. I feel as if my whole body is about to explode. I am feeling very thirsty. Can you give me some water please?” he whispered.

She found a tumbler of water nearby. She started pouring the water into his mouth drop by drop.

He started swallowed the water slowly.

At that moment she suddenly knew how to get her child. She asked him, “Please, can you please tell me the name of your village? I hate to admit. But I do not know the name”

She did not know whether he heard her or not. But his lips opened to utter a word.

She could barely catch the word when there was a gurgling noise from him.

Her husband’s younger brother who was accused by his brother’s first wife that he lusted for her first and then Dammu, had finally succumbed to the wounds he had received and died in front of Dammu.