from previous--

ayub a  fifteen year  old  son of  the  patwari and  his  neighbour  sabar  ali   walk  back  towards  their   village  with the  station officer,  the  village  was  inhabited  , around  two  or  three hundred  families   were  settled  there, the  biggest  of  all houses belonged  to  the   chaudhary unofficial  hakim of  the  village  , patwari's  house  was  rather  modern  and  compact