Life of Ahmad — Page 704
THE WALL as 704 Ni za m D i n. I am allied to my brothers, I do not want them to take water from this well, stop them. " I have heard her say so many times. Sultan Ahmad is against me. One reason for this is that he was adopted as a son by Mirza Ghulam Q a dir and thus made a sharer of half of my property. It is therefore to his interest that he keeps with his aunt. The Ishtih a r which the defendant exhibits, dated May 2nd, 1891, is mine. The well inside my house cannot serve men at all. It is constructed only for the convenience of the ladies. Our water-carrier might sometimes have fetched some water from Imam D i n’s well without our knowledge. He cannot take water from that well openly because there is thrown upon us much abuse. There is greater obstruction now since the erection of the wall. The construction of the new well was undertaken after the erection of the new wall. It is only five or six months since the water of the new well has been available. Before this we used to go to the big mosque for water. The new well is situated within a compound in which there is a printing press and a boarding house. There will be about 150 (boys and teachers) in the school and the boarding house, along with 10 or 15 men working in the press. There are sometimes 70, 80 or 100 guests daily. And during the year there are three or four