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Chapter ten
Three years later – a year of
silence in which Sarah failed in all her attempts to abate Daniel’s life.
Meanwhile, while Damilola was an apprentice under a renowned bricklayer in the
community; he raped the daughter of his master. The man sent him away and
warned him strictly that he must not set his eyes on him again if he doesn’t
have a spare soul. And since he knew before that he had never learnt any skill
in bricklaying, he had no curiosity for learning; he started working in a
bakery near their house─ helping the bakers to mix flour and batch loaves of
bread out to customers. He realized money from this job; his mother was
unanimously pleased because at every close at work, the owner of the bakery did
give away loaves of bread to his workers of which Damilola used to give his
mother.
At this time, Daniel had completed
senior secondary school – for he was periodically given scholarship, jumping
classes and thus made his schooling fast forwarded. He sat for Senior School
Certificate Examinations and he performed excellently in all the subjects he
registered for. This made him the best student ever to have such a wonderful
result from the school. He received many gifts for this from the teachers and
the school principal.
Pending this time Korede, Daniel’s
mother was down with serious fever. She lost appetite and was admitted in the
community hospital.
One evening, Isaac, who was aged,
called Daniel inside and said to him ‘now that you’ve finished your senior
secondary school and with your good and presentable certificate, I think you
need to settle down by now and ponder on how to make your hands busy with something.
I am growing old now, feeble and incapable to execute any laborious work on the
farm, likewise your mother, who has been indisposed and admitted in the
hospital since last month. It’s only the little wages that your brother collect that we’ve been living on. It was yesterday twilight when two young
girls together with their parents came here and fortunately I was aestivating
under the mango tree outside. I urged them to at least make themselves comfortable,
but they refused. At first they introduced the young pregnant girls to me that
they are my son’s wives; at that instance, I knew where they’re driving at but
with wisdom, I tried to cover it up and denounced their statements. I said my
son cannot do this, I trust him – not knowing that I have fueled the burning
fire, the women started shouting on me… Oh my God, I was embarrassed, with the
help of our neighbours, their annoyance was soothed and I admitted that my son
did it all’. Daniel yelled, ‘but papa you shouldn’t have said so; you know how
hard it had been for the family to take two meals a day talk less of adding two
hands into the family’s emptied bows’. Daniel burst into cry. He continued, ‘but
papa, has brother Damilola ever done things like these before?’, he asked. ‘Ah!
Isaac exclaimed, ‘even this very morning when I entered his room, I saw him
right in his bed fondling Kikelomo, the daughter of one of our neighbours.
Likewise this afternoon when he was coming back from work, he came in the house
via the backyard.
