appened there.

They had finished all that they had purposed to do, and were ascending
the bank to return home, when they heard an agonized cry and turning
swiftly round they perceived that this young girl had stumbled and
fallen into the river. They were so horrified at the accident that
they lost all presence of mind and allowed the fast-flowing stream to
get a grip of her and drag her into the current. When help at last
came, her body could just be seen floating on the troubled waters, and
before a boat could be launched it had disappeared in the waves of the
sea which tumbled and roared about a quarter of a mile further down.

This terrible disaster, which brought unutterable gloom and sorrow upon
the home, was unquestionably the work of the god. With bated breath
people talked of the tragic end of this beautiful girl, who had won her
way into the hearts of all who knew her; but they recognized that her
death had been caused by no mere accident, but by the mysterious power
of the invisible forces which are always at work to bring punishment
upon those who have violated the Righteousness of Heaven.

About a month after this calamity, the monsoon rains began to fall.
The clouds gathered in dense masses upon the neighbouring hills, and
poured down such copious showers that the mountain streams were turned
into roaring avalanches, tearing their way down to the sea with an
impetuosity that nothing could resist.

One of these streams, which used to run by the side of the ancestral
property of the family of the man who was believed to have stolen the
hundred dollars, overflowed its banks and rushing along with mad and
headlong speed it swept away their fields, so that when the rains
ceased not a trace of them was to be found, but only sand and gravel,
from which no crop could ever be gathered in the future. The
consequence was that the family was utterly ruined.

This second disaster falling on the homestead was a clear indication to
everyone who knew the story of the stolen money that the god was still
at work in bringing retribution on the sinner. The fact that other
farms had come out of the flood undamaged was proof positive of this.

From this time, too, the young man who really was the culprit began to
be troubled in his mind because of the calamities that had fallen on
his family. The death of his sister by drowning, and the utter
destruction of his home by the flood, which had injured no other farmer
in