"Are you sure that your father died with a heart attack?"

"Yes." I nodded my head. "There is no doubt at all in it. My dad is having a severe heart problem."

"Your father did not say anything about it even a little of it to anyone else, even to his very closed ones?" He knitted his brows together.

"That's the problem. No. My aunt, my brother Williams, my friend Viola and Dr.Nickerson all these people were so much intimated with my dad. He used to share all his views and things with them. He did not mention anything of that to any of these people. Dr.Nickerson, who is a very close friend to my dad, who attended every illness of my father, who attended him when he suffered the heart attack for the last time and declared he was dead, was also not told anything about that matter."

"Was Dr.Nickerson attended your father while he was alive?"

"No. My father died even before he comes to my house."

Smaran nodded his head "Anything else about this episode?"

"This is my father's diary." I put the book on the table which I am keeping all the time beside me. "My father was not in the habit of writing each and everything in the diary. He did not write it regularly either. But this is somewhat related to that." Showing the paragraph my dad wrote in the diary to Smaran I said.

Smaran is now reading that paragraph in the diary. Once he read it he closed that. "Death is dancing around Dazzle. Her life is in danger." He is saying the sentences he read in the diary just now. May be a little different but context the same. "But there is no clue whatsoever of it." And "Dazzle does not believe it. It is not easy to convince her." without looking into the diary he said again. Smarana has good memory power also.

"You are right. Why my dad tried to be that much secretive I just cannot understand." I am saying now. "In fact he did not want to be secretive. He wanted to write that matter there but he could not. He wrote that on the day he suffered that last severe heart attack. He could not manage to write anymore than that."

Smaran once again opened the diary at that page and looked at that paragraph. "You are absolutely right." He is saying again after a nod and little pause. "It is indeed a very important piece of information. Even he could not give a clue directly he mentioned it indirectly." Looking meaningfully into my eyes Smaran said.

"What that is?" it caused interest in me.

"Read the sentences in that diary again Miss Dazzle."

I am now reading the sentences once again irked by the behavior of Smaran. I am completing the sentences. "Stop" he said once again irritating me a lot. "Don't you see? It is so clear there."

"What is so clear there? I am not seeing anything clear cut in it." This time I cannot keep my irritation in myself.

"Dazzle does not believe it. It is not easy to convince her." Smaran is saying. "It means that it is something you very well know Miss Dazzle. Otherwise the problem of your don't believing would not come into it. If you are hearing it for the first time from your father, what is the necessity to him to convince you?"

For the first time I am seeing difference in thinking between Smaran and me. My irritation vanished and I said with a smile "Yes, you are right."

"So, one part of my investigation is what that your father that desperately wanted to tell you and died before giving even a small hint of it."

"That is the major part of your investigation Mr.Smaran." I am saying. "You just don't know how much I am suffering and struggling myself to know about that. My dear dear dad so desperately wanted to say something to me and died without sharing any of it. How anyone does feel in my place?"

"I agree." Smaran is saying with a smile on his lips. "You please do something in your spare time to help me in my investigating."

"Tell me what it is?" trying to guess what it is I said.

"Just try to think as many things as possible that you don't believe even your father said about them to you. Make as big a list as possible."

This exercise is appearing strange and surprising to me. Detectives and psychologists are peculiar things. "I sure do." I nodded my head and am saying again. "I think there is nothing more than this I can say to you about this."

***

Now I am explaining about my strange experiences to Smaran. My hearing of weeping sound and trying to follow it to find that out, standing near the parapet wall on the terrace and stopped by Williams.

"Indeed very much surprising! For how long you are hearing that sound?"

"Not very long back. Anyhow I can say it all started only after my dad's death."

"I see." Smaran nodded his head. He is looking into my face expecting to hear something more. There is lot I have to tell to him. But how can I say all about that to him? My touching experience in the bathroom, my being raped by Nathaniel and Chuck, there is a lot in fact.

"Are you sure that you have said everything in this regard Miss Dazzle?" as I am not saying anything more, Smaran asked me.

"Er...yes....yes I told you everything." I am saying in haste. "You may start your investigation."

"I am not thinking like that." Smaran nodded his head in negation. "Unless and until you have shared everything, I cannot be much helpful."

Once again I have started feeling so much of irritation on Smaran. Now my anger directed towards George. That bloody George put me in this cumbersome situation. There is no way to escape. If this Smaran says to that George I am not much cooperating with him, oh, god! I don't want to think about the consequences.

I am now explaining to him my touch experiences in bathroom and my being raped by Nathaniel and Chuck while I am feeling intense shame in myself. "I am thinking it is just a psychological problem Mr.Smaran. How you can be helpful in this regard I cannot understand. Only a psychologist or psychiatrist can be helpful to me in this." hissing out heavily I said.

"I am a psychologist also Miss Dazzle." With that charming smile again, Smaran said.

"But you have come here as a detective not a psychologist." Once again I am irritated.

"I agree. But my psychological skills are also necessary to solve this mystery." Smaran is saying again. "For how long you are having these experiences?"

I closed my eyes thinking carefully trying to remember. "I must say Mr.Smaran, even cannot say the time exactly, I started feeling all this only after my dad's death."

"Did not you find anything strange in all this?" hissing out heavily Smaran asked me.

"Tell me about it?" by now I understood that there is something worth noted noticed by Smaran.

"This all started only after your father's death. And your father died wanted to say something so desperately to you and without saying that."

"Then?" I still cannot understand what Smaran wants to say.

"That something that your father wanted to say to you and the reason for your strange experiences are related. There is some inextricable link with these two."

"How that would be?" I am feeling irritation once again. "My experiences so far are because of my psychological disorder. How that has to do anything with my dad's that thing?"

"Psychological disorders like these do not start sudden." Smaran is saying. "In your case you are perfect until recently. These all psychological disorders started in you only six months or so back."

"You are absolutely true." I have to agree. Smaran is revealing his wonderful psychological skills also.

"In my opinion, if we find out that something that your father so desperately wanted to tell you, your psychological problem also will be solved. That means we can know the reason what caused that psychological disorders in you."

"Are you thinking that something external caused the psychological disorders in me Mr.Smaran?" my heart beating increased.

"I am quite positive about that Miss Dazzle. For the present I want to say only this much."

There is some silence filled with curiosity and it is broken by Smaran. "In other way if we find out the reason for your psychological disorders we can find out what your father that much wanted to tell you."

"Is it is so?" Smaran is appearing so different to me now. What George said about Smaran is hundred percent true. Now I am feeling quite confident that Smaran can solve this mystery.

"Yes, I am feeling that they are that much interrelated and linked." With firmness in his voice Smaran said.

***

More than two hours or so passed and still we are discussing about the problems and Smaran is asking all the things. I have said almost all about my rape experiences I think.

"I hope we have covered all the matters necessary Miss Dazzle." With a satisfying look in his face Smaran said. "I want to say one thing for sure here."

I hissed out heavily and said. "Tell me." I reclined in the chair and am observing Smaran interestingly. In the end this Smaran turned out to be a very peculiar character for me.

"Your life is really in danger. You need to be very careful."

I shuddered with fear on hearing that. If it is anyone else I would not have worried about that at all. But it is Smaran, who has already proved his intelligence and investigation skills more than enough for me.

"Menaka, she is my niece. She usually helps me in all my investigations. She is going to be with you every minute from now on. She just shadows you all the time." With the same cool voice Smaran said.

"What?" I really did not understand what I just have heard.

"You heard it right Miss Dazzle." Smaran once again said that to me.

"Mr.Smaran, are you really thinking that I do agree to this? What you are thinking about me?" with a smile on my lips I asked him.

"I know everything about you and your organizations Miss Dazzle. I know about your father also very well. I am having all the respect for you, your father and your organizations." He is still saying and I am listening intently. "But it is must. You have to agree to this also if you want that I continue with my investigation."

I know very well what happens if Smaran stops investigation. I am once again feeling full of irritation towards George. "How much aged she is? What she is doing?"

"Twenty four. She completed her graduation. She wants to study post-graduation but her mother is desperate about getting her married."

I burst into laughter. "Alright. Let it be so then."

"You need not worry about. Menaka is really a very intelligent girl. You can enjoy her company a lot."

"I hope so." I nodded my head.

"I don't think we have covered each and everything. If you remember anything worth reporting, you call me directly or share the same with Menaka. But don't stop reporting. It is very important."

"Sure I shall do so."

Smaran got off from the chair and said. "I am promising you to complete all this in one month. We have to sit more than one or two times before I complete it."

(..........to be continued)

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