Adultery A Night of Error - (Completed)

[usaiha2]

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She heard the rough voices and footsteps of Dacoits which were approaching nearer towards her way. She ran for her life with bare feet. She entered in to the bush of high grasses which had grown due to rain. She crawled amongst the grasses like soldiers crawling in battle field. She could see the flash of torch lights and 4/5 numbers of tall shadows in the backyard of the house. Thank...God; luckily she was escaped in right time.

She reached the big tree where her husband, Viswanath was waiting for her. She embraced him, kissed him, and started sobbing. Viswanath consoled her. There was no time, they had to escape from the Dacoits, and at the same time they had to board the Bus at Bus stop by 8.00PM. They had only one hour. They ran through the muddy paddy fields without looking back.

It was the seventh night after the new moon. The night was a clear one, and the entire area was illuminated with bright moonlight. They concealed themselves in the green paddy (appeared dark), and running amongst these without being seen. They were following the main road. At about 7.15 PM, they reached a point on the road lying between the village and Bus stop. At that point, they found a footpath which served as a shortcut leads off from the main road.

They decided to follow the footpath, avoiding the main toad as they were afraid of Dacoits if following them. It was already 8.00PM, and they were about to reach near the Bus stop, then they saw the Bus reached the Bus stop. They started running towards the Bus as it was about to leave.

Finally, they caught up the night bus at the last moment. The conductor of bus ushered them to inside the bus, inspected their tickets. Leela took her seat in the right row, exactly behind the Driver which was meant for ladies only. Viswanath took his seat in the row behind Leela. There was no co-passenger with Leela; she was the lonely lady in that row. But, Viswanath had a co-passenger, a very old man sitting near the window. He was in deep slumber. He thanked God, although they were separated, but they were very close, and they could communicate with each other.

It was an ordinary Bus full of people with most of the seats occupied. The Bus had three staffs. The Driver named Vikram singh, aged 54 years, full of furrow on his forehead, having a rugged feature of masculinity, his head was full of grey hairs, his face was full of unshaved grey beards with a thick, and long grey mustache. His wrist and arms were muscular like a wrestler due to years of driving behind the wheel.

The conductor was a very young fellow named Ranjit Sinha, aged about 25 years. He was wearing a khaki uniform with a small leather bag (which contained Tickets to be issued to the passengers, list of passengers, and money) with a strap which hung on his shoulder. He had dropping eyes with pointed mustache. He was tall, slim, but had a powerful physique. The Bus cleaner was a younger boy, aged 20 years named Haria, wearing a half pant, whose prime function was to sweep, clean the Bus, and loading in to/unloading from Bus the passengers' goods.