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- by  the  time  she  was  close  to  reaching  home  dusk had  descended,  sweaty  and  red  faced  when she  entered  her  street just  for  a  moment  she  hesitated  but  her  heart  shrunk  tighter inside  , the  street  was  vacant  , absolutely  empty  of  any  soul  around,  far  and  wide  the  echoing  sound  of  captain hayat"s  stick  beating  the street  also  was  not  heard,  it  simply  meant  daddy  had  got  tired  of  waiting  for  her  on some  corner  of  the  street  , was  ot  possible  he  had  not  bothered  to  come  , not  even waited  for  for  her