Friday, January 27, 2023

page 120

....did you hear and see him  the last time 
No sir,   some time later around  eleven thirty   when I sat reading my newspaper   in the store door way , I heard  the master s footsteps  going towards his bedroom upstairs,  I immediately got up to  shut the open library window  and also locked the  main door after which I couldn't hear anything 
Tariq smiled at the chef  did he  fall asleep  waiting for his  telephone call 
Not at all sir, I was  alert and awake all the time,  my sleep is also    not deep  and  go to bed after midnight 
Did you receive any message on the phone 
No sir,  
It looks a straight and simple case  just some of the details  are to be  scrutinized 
Before going to your  bedroom which windows did you shut  off in the library 
The bigger window  sir,  it is kept open the whole day,  the windows   opposite the door are rarely  opened 
So you claim you  are a keen listener  and even overheard the  snippet of their conversation in the garden,  now tell me if you did hear the victim return  from the  moonlight outing 
The chef took some time to think over the incident before answering he didn't  actually hear him come back,  but he was  called  by the pressing of the bell,  had he come in from the  main door he would have seen him,  definitely he entered the house through a window  , sir  the master always  entered from the main door  and walked  through the hall to reach his library,  perhaps he needed to  use his phone and   from the garden directly jumped in through the window,  he was rather weird so it's not surprising 

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