Baba and the men carried their luggage to the garden and spread themselves out in the cool shade under a tree. Baba washed his face and hands. The men, after taking off their clothes, went to sleep. Since it was very hot at the time, they all slept in their underpants. Soon after, the official storekeeper himself showed up and asked the watchman, "Who are those people and why did you allow them to camp inside? Who will be responsible if anything is stolen?" The watchman implored his pardon, but harshly reprimanding him, the official said, "Your service terminates as of tomorrow. You're fired!"
Baba was listening to all this, and he woke Eruch and said, "Go and find out what the trouble is."
Eruch ran half-naked to the guard, but the official had already left.
The watchman told him everything and Eruch consoled him, saying, "Don't worry, we'll do something." Eruch, still in his boxers, then went to see the official storekeeper in the dak bungalow and told him in English, "It was not the watchman's fault. We were wrong to seek shelter here. He at first refused us entrance, but we persuaded him to relent.
"I am the son of a boiler inspector [a high government position] and all my companions come from good families. We will leave the garden now, but please do not dismiss the watchman because of us. We were simply lying under a tree and never stepped foot in the store."
The official said, "You may rest there as long as you like. I was just threatening the man to keep him on his toes so he won't permit anyone else to enter the premises. I won't sack him, don't worry."
"Then kindly accompany me and assure him of that," Eruch requested. "He is so afraid, and my elder brother won't be able to rest so long as the man keeps worrying."
The storekeeper took Eruch back in his car to the garden. Pretending to reprimand the watchman, he said, "If this ever happens again, I will dismiss you from service, but today you're forgiven. Just remember not to let it happen again; otherwise, you'll really lose your job."
Thus everything returned to normal, but the Lord of the universe could not rest undisturbed, even under the shade of a tree. Perhaps his fatigue was a pretext to contact the kindly watchman and his stern boss.