Chapter 24

Michael had run away from home that day to seek solace alone somewhere quiet and he had found it at the doctor s home under a big tree at the back of his cottage. He was there till late in the night. After crying his eye s out, he slept off, for how long he didn t know but it must have been very long because when the doctor found him it was dark, and it was he who took him home to his already frantic and worried grandmother. The doctor left after promising to be back to see him the next day. Somehow, Michael took to him and confided in him, it was the doctor who had advised him to channel his bitterness into something better and productive. He told him to make a man of himself and become a man no woman would ever reject or leave for another man. At fifteen, he left for the big city after completing high school. He left with the promise to his grandmother to go and further his education but Michael s burning ambitions were for something greater than schooling. It was this sheer gu