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151 REMINISCENCES OF SIR MUHAMMAD ZAFRULLA KHAN difficult to believe that a definite line like that should have no significance, then matters may proceed. But if he is not satisfied, he should ask for an explanation: from which direction did this suggestion proceed. He can then make his point that the umpire is being influenced in a particular direction by people who are not directly concerned with this question at all and we have lost confidence in this procedure. That might perhaps go some distance with Mr. Jinnah; otherwise you have not much hope, merely because of this slip of paper. " He went to Delhi that night, was in Delhi the next day, saw Mr. Jinnah, left Delhi in the evening and arrived back in Lahore on the third morning, Friday morning, and came straight from the railway station to see me. He was very crestfallen, Mr. Jinnah had told him to go ahead and to do his best and not to worry. Sir Cyril was a responsible man and would not let his judgment be influenced by any outsider. Curiously enough, when the award was announced, the boundary followed the line described in the 'slip of paper' except for one change, again, adverse to Pakistan, which I shall come to later. As I have said, on Tuesday, Sir Cyril had fixed Friday noon as the deadline for filling written cases. When I had arrived at Lahore the previous evening and was received by a large number of people, including among them the Nawab of Mamdot, who was then, I believe, the Head of the Provincial Cabinet, he told me that this meeting was fixed for 11 o'clock the next morning with Sir Cyril and that there was to be a meeting with the lawyers at his house at 2:30 p. m. , from which I concluded that I would then meet the lawyers who had been engaged in the preparation of the case, for I had been assured by Mr. Jinnah that by the time I arrived in Lahore I would find the whole case ready, and I would only have to take on the presentation of the case on the basis of the brief prepared by the lawyers. So, under that impression, at 2:30 I presented myself at Mamdot Villa, the residence of the Nawab of Mamdot. I found a large number of lawyers present there, most of whom I knew very well as personal friends, some of them my seniors at the Bar with whom I had worked for a number of years. I shook hands with them all and sat down and said, "Well, now, gentlemen, which of you are working with me on this case?" Khalifa Shuja-ud-din, who was my senior at the Bar by three or four years, smiled and asked, "Which case?" "The Boundary case, of course. I was asked to meet with the lawyers working on the boundary