I was informed by some one that Girdharlal and K.B. Vakil his guide in using ingenious tricks of deceit against me, were determined to make me a debtor (so that I be under his long–time obligation and so that I be unable to make any complaint against his past crimes of double-crossing, deceiving and misleading me as my brokers and well-wishers as he had so ingeniously posed so long. Many times I had felt his plotting designs but due to standing business of mine, he never made it impossible for me to get out of his octopus clutches, and whenever my business was stopped by me, he never parted with my natt[unclear] capital, one the cash balance being Rs. 80,000/-, the next time it being Rs. 40,000/- both the times I remained out of Bombay so that he may not involve me into fresh speculative business again as usual. But he never parted with my capital keeping ever[unclear] all of it with himself giving me only household expenses like a stingy father to a spendthrift son. I had worked with 20 Brokers, none of whom were INSINCERE with me except[unclear] [unclear] him though two or three brokers out of twenty had sometimes acted dishonestly.
