He felt a bit sorry for his mother and father—they would miss him…they would believe he had been lost for ever…! But one day, a fortune made, he would return home and then nobody would care any more about school reports and what he ate and why he came home late…Ranji would be waiting for him at the station, and Suraj would bring him back a present—an African lion, perhaps, or a transistor-radio… But he wished Ranji was with him now; he wished the ragged hippy
