BEN
Ellias and Barsha came to Nakul’s residence within an hour. Nakul were eagerly waiting for them to come. On the arrival of Ellias and Barsha respectively to his house, Nakul told them the entire matter. They were listening to him with so quiet and calm manner as if Nakul is telling them a story and when Nakul showed them the Secret gateway, they were just stunned. However, they could not be blamed for all this. Then Nakul went near the gateway and said, “Om Nama Shivay” and the gateway opened and the lift came near the gateway and stopped.
The other two got a bit scared at that point of time. Nakul then told them that the lift is programmed in such a manner that only one person can enter the lift once Nakul’s voice is heard. He told it with the help of his past experience with Gopal. He remembered that as Nakul entered the lift’s door, and as Gopal was about to enter, the lift’s door was closed. So it was pretty obvious that Nakul will have to go last in order to provide entrance to Ellias and Barsha at first. Nakul asked Ellias to go first and then Barsha followed by Nakul himself. Ellias got a bit scared as he did not want to go to a strange place alone and that too first. If anything happens, then??
Suddenly Ellias got an idea. He thought to send Barsha at first. So, Ellias turned towards Nakul and Barsha and said,
“I would have definitely go first, but manners say, “Ladies First.” And so I will request you to go first Barsha.”
Moreover Ellias continued, “If you are feared, then I can go first.”
Barsha then interrupting him said, “I do not fear anything but god.”though she was feared to go inside first.
Barsha then with a mixed feeling of anger and irritating face towards Ellias with a mixed feeling of fear agreed to the proposal. Nakul also told her that when she will enter the lift, then the lift’s door will be closed and there will be no buttons inside it and the lift will go down straight for 7 to 8 minutes and it will stop at a dark, cold and scary place. Nakul told Barsha not to get feared and nervous at that moment and just step out when the lift’s gate opens. The place will automatically be lightened. He also added that he will send Ellias after that and then he himself would finally come.
Nakul then asked her, “Is this thing clear ?”
She gave a positive reply by nodding her head and she went inside the lift and followed Nakul’s instructions strictly and she arrived at the appropriate place and then finally Ellias and Nakul also arrived there respectively. They were searching, hunting and investigating the place when suddenly Ellias asked,
“Hey, Nakul. You are living in this house since your birth. You have passed in front of this photo frame several times in your life and might have talked also in front of this photo frame, then, how come today only the gateway opened and you came to know about this secret gateway. It could have happened much before in your life.”
Nakul then looking towards him replied in an unconfident manner, “Friend, I have also thought about this matter in my mind, but I also did not have an answer to this question.”
Nakul continued in the same unconfident manner, “But, I am of the opinion that dad must have programmed it in such a manner, that the gateway will open hearing my voice only when the photo frame is removed because this is the first time, that we have removed this photo frame. Moreover Gopal told me that when I was only 4 years old, then one day when Gopal tried to remove the photo frame in order to clean the walls, then my father came running from the other room and said to him not to remove this photo frame ever from the wall. I think, this was the reason——–the secret gateway.”
Ellias then asked, “But, as you have told me, your father was a sales manager in a company. Why would a sales manager create a secret gateway in his own home? Isn’t that strange?”
Nakul replied, “Yes. I also want to know the reason.”
Both of them got a bit silent at their conversation. Nakul then said to Ellias in a low tone,
“Friend, I do not know, but, I am having a hunch that the brutal death or as we shall say it the brutal murder of my parents is somehow related to this secret room. Otherwise, why should anyone kill a sales manager and a marketing administrator. There must be some secret hidden in this room. But what?”
Nakul and Ellias were busy in their own conversation, when suddenly Barsha, who was searching the room on the other side called Nakul and asked him,
“Nakul, you said once, that you dad was a detective. Is it correct?”
Nakul replied, “ Yes. No. I mean I said that he wanted to become a detective, that also when he was in the college with my mom and that is why my maternal grandfather did not accept their relationship and so they came to Kolkata. But, what that got to do with this room?”
Barsha replied in a calm voice, “Yes. It has.” She continued, “Your father fulfilled his ambition and he became a detective. Look properly at the shelves——-SOLVED, UNSOLVED, SOLVED BUT YET TO BE PROVED.——-what is all this? What did he solve? He was not a mathematician that he will solve problems on mathematics. These indicates the cases that he took up in his entire lifetime. The file contains the case details.”
Ellias then interrupting her said, “Give a break to your story. How could you be so sure about all that ?”
Barsha then looking towards her said in a calm manner, “Circumstances and past of Nakul justifies my story.”
Ellias then said to Barsha irritatingly, “OK, if you are so clever and intelligent and justified and smart and sure, then tell us what this computer doing in the room? Is it increasing the decorum of the room?”
Barsha was quiet at the question as she did not have an answer to the question. Nakul then asked the two to stop arguing and he just went and switched on the computer. As soon as the computer was turned on, it asked a code to log in the computer. The trio started thinking as to what could be the code to log in the computer. Barsha asked Nakul to try it with his father’s name, mother’s name, his name, their date of birth or Nakul’s date of birth, but all these failed. They were not the secret codes. Ellias then told them to try it with their date of deaths but Barsha interrupting him said with a laugh,
“Do not be a nincompoop. How could someone know their date of death, while they are alive.”
Ellias felt a bit abashed at that moment of his stupidity as he made a fool out of himself. He just kept silent for a moment. Barsha then asked Nakul, “Do you recollect anything from your past that could be the code to log in the computer- anything that your dad or mom might have told you while they were alive.”
Nakul said, “I was too young when I lost my parents. I have only few vague memories of my past. I really could not remember anything that could be the code to log in the computer.”
The trio started thinking about the code silently when suddenly Nakul shouted breaking the silence, “Oh My GOD! Yes. It is not my dad. My mother told me about the secret code. I only never realized that it was the secret code to log in the computer.”
The other two present there asked him about the secret code but he did not say anything and typed something in the keyboard and the computer accepted the code. Ellias and Barsha were astonished on seeing this. They then asked Nakul about the code and what he typed in the keyboard of the computer.
Nakul smiled intelligently and replied, “When my mother was alive, she always used to tell me—– DISCOURAGEMENT IS THE GREATEST ENCOURAGEMENT. UNLESS SOMEONE DISCOURAGES YOU, YOU WILL NOT BE MOTIVATED TO PROVE HIM WRONG. DO NOT GIVE UP DUE TO ANY REASON. THERE ARE MANY EXCUSES OF FAILURE BUT ONLY ONE REASON FOR SUCCESS—————-HARDWORK. ALWAYS REMEMBER HARDWORK AND DEDICATION IS THE CODE OF OUR LIFE. At that point of time, I never realized totally the meaning of her sentence. Now I understand. The code to log in the computer is HARDWORK AND DEDICATION.”
Nakul continued, “Believe me guys, I was thinking of the expression today morning itself. Now I understand, today I was meant to discover the Secret Room—–it was in my fate. It was written.”
So finally the computer was logged in. when the computer was logged in, they saw a single folder with an icon like Netscape Navigator in the desktop and when they double clicked it to open it, a message displayed. The message stated as follows :- “WELCOME! SINCE YOU HAVE NOT LOGGED IN FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, THE EARLIER NAME HAS EXPIRED. SO KINDLY GIVE A NEW NAME TO LOG IN.”
The trio then started thinking about a new name when suddenly the idea stroke in their mind that the name could be the first letter of their respective names. So it could be NEB, ENB, NBE, BEN, EBN OR BNE. But the main question that arose was that whose name shall come first. Nakul was indifferent on this matter but Ellias and Barsha kept arguing on this simple matter as usual, on whose name shall come first.
Finally Barsha said to Ellias, “You have only send me here fast by saying LADIES FIRST. So the principle applies here too. Therefore my name only shall come first.”
That was a good justification for the argument. So, Ellias finally accepted it with a bit of anger and irritation towards her and said that his name then shall come second in the position. Nakul readily accepted it and they logged in with the name of BEN. As soon as they logged in, a message displayed——
“THANK YOU. FROM TODAY, THIS WILL BE THE NAME OF YOUR DETECTIVE AGENCY. KINDLY REMEMBER IT AS THERE IS NO BACK UP IN CASE OF FORGETTING THE SECRET CODE.”
When they pressed the enter key, another message displayed,
“NOW YOU ARE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET. PLEASE CHECK REGULARLY FOR ANY UPCOMING CASE.”
Now they readily understood the fact that they have opened the detective agency with the name of BEN. They just remained silent and went back to their rooms through the lift with a mixed feeling of fear and excitement. Finally they have opened a detective agency with the name of BEN without understanding the problems and troubles that they are attracting.
To Continue Click on Page Below…
