ईमानदारों के सम्मेलन में Imanadaron Ke Sammelan Mein

लेखक को ईमानदार सम्मेलन का उद्घाटन करने का निमंत्रण मिलता है।

Narrator receives an invitation to inaugurate an honest people's conference. He swears he did not go for honesty - he went to pocket the difference by travelling second class while claiming first class fare (saving 150 rupees).

स्टेशन पर 10 फूल-मालाएँ। होटल में बड़ा कमरा। उद्घाटन का भाषण।

Warmly welcomed at the station with ten garlands. Narrator thinks of selling them if a gardener were nearby. Stays in a big hotel room. Does not lock the room to spare his companions trouble. Gives an inauguration speech for an hour.

लेखक की नयी चप्पलें गायब। एक 'ईमानदार' डेलीगेट सलाह देता है - खुद उन्हीं चप्पलों को पहने हुए!

Narrator's new chappals are missing after the inauguration. An honest delegate in his very chappals advises him: 'Never take off chappals in one place - one here, one ten feet away, then they won't be stolen!' The narrator plays along.

एक चादर गायब। दो दिन में तीनों चादरें चली गईं। धूप का चश्मा भी गायब - एक 'ईमानदार' सहानुभूति देते समय खुद उसे पहने हुए था।

A bed-sheet disappears the first night. By the second night all three sheets are gone. The narrator's sunglasses vanish. A sympathetic delegate comes to commiserate - wearing the narrator's sunglasses himself.

तीसरी रात कंबल गायब। मंत्री-कार्यकर्ता विवाद। सुबह ताला तक चोरी। लेखक भाग निकले।

On the third night the blanket is missing. The hotel minister scolds workers; the narrator talks him out of calling the police. Next morning the room lock itself is stolen. Narrator calls a rickshaw saying: 'Everything has been stolen - even the lock. I am the last thing left. If I stay I'll be stolen too.'