Nitya -- House opposite -- A horse and two goats -- The Roman image -- The watchman -- A career -- Old man of the temple -- A hero -- Dodu -- Another community -- Like the sun -- Chippy -- Uncle's letters -- All avoidable talk -- A snake in the grass -- The evening gift -- A breath of Lucifer -- Annamalai -- The shelter -- The mute companions -- At the portal -- Four rupees -- Flavour of coconut -- Fruition at forty -- Crime and punishment -- Half a rupee worth -- The antidote -- Under the banyan tree.