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प्रश्न
Why was the narrator sorry to have paid attention to the footsteps?
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उत्तर
The imagination of the ghost getting into his house lead to a commotion. It caused his mother to throw a shoe through a window of the neighbouring house. It ended with his grandfather shooting a policeman. So the narrator was sorry to have paid attention to the footsteps.
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