Can anyone please tell the summary of chapter THE UNDESERVED REWARD
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The narrator has a secret admiration for the district collector who is a learned man and has done research on old coins and history. However, he takes no initiative to meet the district collector. Surprisingly, one day he gets a written invitation from the district collector to meet him. His friends advise him not to go and says that district collector could have come himself. They also say that the he did not do so because he was a snob. However, the narrator makes a logical analysis and decides that it was right for the district collector to have his ego and that visiting the narrator's place would be inconvenient and cause a lot of expense for him. So, he decides to go and meet the district collector as requested. When the meeting took place, the author finds that the district collector was actually a person with no airs. Talks go round and rumors develop about their friendship. People approach the narrator for favors to be got through the district collector. But, the narrator turns them down. Once the author's childhood friend Baldev visits him. After reviving old memories, Baldev says that his son has been falsely implicated and asks the narrator to represent his case to the district collector. He does not give the narrator a chance to say no. Yet, the author does nothing in this regard and forgets about it altogether. Later Baldev comes along with his son and tells the narrator that his son has been released. He expresses his gratitude to the narrator and showers him with gifts. Although the narrator feels guilty, he takes the reward and says nothing.
The ''undeserved'' revolves around the narrator and the district officer. District officer initially
invites the narrator himself as the narrator writes about some good qualities within him. At the start the narrator was looking forward to reject the invitation but later he goes to the place of district officer as he is the influential person in the area. They meet each other frequently and became friends .Their friendship spread in the area and people started to approach narrator to reach village officer but narrator always turned them down.
Once one of the old friend of narrator 'Baldev'
approached him and reminded him about their relationship .Then he asked him to present a case about his son wrong implication before the district officer .This time he did not reject him but later he forget about that.Then after some time his friend came with his son and says that his son was released .So, he showed his gratitude and presented some gifts to the narrator for his work.
At last, narrator feel sorry that he didn't do anything and can't even tell to his friend.
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