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.....and that was his second smile after several hours,  tge smile had  casually  touched  the young man's  lips, he thought for a while and began  to climb down the slope, to reach the tiny shop  with bamboo    railings  and bamboo floored veranda  that was used as a store to keep  chairs  tables cots and benches for  serving,  there wasn't much of rush,  he extended his wrist to see the time     , it displayed   ten thirty  day time  yet somehow   breakfast time seemed  was over,  three  persons  sitting in the  tea shop looked at him  in sheer surprise   one of them was an elderly man   second was a young man of twenty two or thereabouts  tge third an eleven year old,  he asked if tea was available  looking at their faces one by one  who perhaps  thought  the approaching man  was going to ask about some address 

Of course,  why not , the elderly man stood up to welcome the customer,  a cour cot was dragged near for him to sit on