A Tedious Case (Part 5)

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Rathore- Rawte shout at her later now lets open the diary. Sakshi apna hair pin do

Sakshi removed her hair pin and passed it to Arjun who carefully opened the diary. He flipped the cover and scanned the page and flipped to the next one. He kept flipping through the diary and then suddenly stopped at a page...

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As Arjun read the page his expressions changed.

Rathore- Rawte what is written in the diary?

Arjun does not respond and keeps reading the diary

Rathore- Rawte I asked you something

Arjun still does not answer him

Rathore- Damn it Rawte! Answer me

Arjun finally looks up

Arjun- Have a look yourself sir!

Arjun emphasises on the sir mocking Rathore making Rathore's blood boil. He snatches the diary and reads it.

Rathore- What is this! This is utter rubbish!

Rathore said while throwing the diary on the table. Chotu picked the diary up and read it

Chotu- Sir I think woh bore hogayi hogi and that is why she drew this

Ayesha- Chotu show me the diary

Chotu hands the diary to Ayesha and she studies the drawings.

Ayesha- This looks like any other simple drawing sir, what did you find interesting in this

Rathore- Exactly what I am saying

Arjun- Nahi Rathore kuch toh choot raha hai. This drawing is not made just like that suddenly. She has noted down very important events of her life if she wanted to just make a drawing when she is bored she would have done it somewhere else.

Riya- Ayesha may I have a look

Ayesha nods and passes the diary to Riya. Riya studies the drawing, she then runs her hand over it and then again studies it. She then places it on the side and takes out a notebook and starts making notes. All of the others our just staring at her but she is least bothered as she is completely engrossed in her task.

After several minutes Riya finally closes the diary and exclaims

Riya- Done!

She then looks up to see confused gazes of her team members on her. She sighs and then starts explaining.

Riya- Arjun sir was right, she is passing out a message, she first of all learned morse code and then writing style in brail. On top of that she created a drawing around her message to hide it. After locating the message I decoded it. It says " To unravel the mystery us the knowledge of chemistry"

Sakshi- How is chemistry related to all this?

Liza- I think I know

Saying so Liza ran out of the conference hall and returned seconds later with a match box. She asked Riya to flip the page and then hold the diary. She then lit a matchstick and held it close to the paper and all of a sudden letters started appearing. She did that for the next few pages until there was no more writing.

Rathore- Wow well done girls, Riya please read what is written

Hi I am Akriti,

Well you probably already know a lot about me, I normally start with dear diary but this message is not addressed to my diary it is addressed to you the one who could crack the code and uncover the hidden message. If you are reading this I am probably no more... and you are likely the team/person investigating my death. But there is a lot more to this then just one murder and since you were smart enough to find this message you deserve to know and I truly hope you make things right.

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