"Your work is over? How could it be over by paying a rupee to each? I could have done that, and it would have saved me the trouble of rounding them up and bringing them here."
Smiling, Baba replied, "It is my work; how can you understand it?"
"Strange ... very strange work indeed! With so much effort, I found and brought so many boys — and you sent them all back. Is this the way you work?"
Again, this made Baba laugh, and he calmed him, "Don't worry, Pappa. You will reap the fruit of your labor. This work was given to you solely for the purpose of allowing you to serve me."
Baba did not stay in Lahore. Alighting from the train, he immediately left for Dehra Dun in the Buick, while the others followed in the Blue Bus. Since Eruch had been sent back to Bangalore, Pappa now drove the bus with Nilu as his assistant and Elizabeth drove the car. The other men mandali proceeded to Dehra Dun by train with Chatti Baba. On the way, Baba contacted a mast in Amritsar and two other masts in Khanna.
Pappa was not a good driver ("the worst I ever met," Nilu recorded), and there were frequent mechanical failures. More problems arose. After they fixed the bus in Ludhiana, a windstorm broke out and raised clouds of dust for more than an hour, dangerously impairing visibility. Fortunately a few showers of rain fell and soon settled the dust.
Baba and the group spent the night in the dak bungalow at Khanna, and reached Dehra Dun the next afternoon, the 10th of April.
Meanwhile, at Laksar, the men mandali had to change trains with Chatti Baba, who refused to board it. The train was about to leave when Vishnu thought of this trick: He told the mast, "We are trying to take you back to your native place, but we can't, if you won't board the train." The ruse worked and Chatti Baba happily climbed on board.
When Baba heard of it, he laughed, and joked, "Vishnu is short and does all the work of marketing and travel arrangements. But now I see that not only does he look like Napoleon and labor like Napoleon — even his brain works like Napoleon's!"
Reaching Dehra Dun, Baba occupied himself with mast work. He contacted some in the town, and brought some to his bungalow, called Sushila Bhawan at No. 1 Laxmi Rd in Dalanwala.