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That would mean that he would be asked more questions, and he will have to invent  more lies, and the more lies there are the more weak our story becomes. His role is to make sure that there is no way by which the bank guys can get the news out in time, and that’s all he will do. If they change anything, he can warn us. It is best that he remain our inside man, weak as he is.”  

And, then, there was a sound of an approaching vehicle, and Vikas quickly got up.  

“Ok! The time is come, help me roll the stone down.” Vikas cried.  

Quickly, Vikas and Rahul rolled the huge stone on to the middle of the road, and it was evident that it was a job harder than Vikas had thought… but they accomplished the task just in time.   

“Wear this mask, and hide behind the bushes… and under no condition use my name or yours, don’t come out till everyone in the car is out of the car, or better still wait till I have come out and then follow me.”  

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Soon, the walking bore result and there, sitting on a big rock, was Vikas. He was looking a bit impatient.

“You are late! We should make our preparation…if Ramesh can’t hold them long enough, they will be here any moment now and if they get here without us prepared for them, it will be a waste of time and effort,” Vikas said, a bit irritated.

I felt that Rahul wanted them to come now, so that they would be caught unprepared and the whole adventure would come to an end. But Murphy was not that wrong after all; when something can go wrong it usually does and , for Rahul, the jeep with the money did not come.

“I have chosen this spot because if we stand near that tree we can see the road as it bends around the hill… and that gives us a fifteen minute window to be ready for them. To stop them, I think we should roll that boulder on to the road,” Vikas said pointing at a big rock lying on the side of the road.

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Rahul was clearly amazed to see Vikas like that and, I am sure, he also realized the inadequacy of his own disguise.

“Don’t you think we might need a vehicle for this?” Rahul enquired.

“No we don’t, a vehicle can be traced, and its hard to find a vehicle that can’t be trace. If we have to, we will use the vehicle they are coming in.”

“When were you planning to tell us this?”

“As soon as you asked me the question,” Vikas laughed.

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“Yes!” I heard said on the other side and, then something more, which I could not make out.

Then it was Vikas’ turn to say “OK,” and hang up.

He looked grim, and the expression on his face made me wonder – not for the first time – if he was actually new at this or, had he been involved in similar affairs before. But, then, he was an engineer, and what I had gathered from observing him at work, I thought he was good at his job. As often happens, someone who is good at one thing, is good at a few other things as well. The same, it seemed, was true for Vikas. He was good at quite a few things, and maybe that rubbed off on to his skills at crime too. Be it as it may be, till now, I could not detect any chink in the armor. Vikas was smart enough not to bring up the matter of guns before Rahul and Ramesh, for they would have freaked out just at the mention of guns.

But, Vikas had asked for two pistols, and it was clear that he meant for Rahul to have one of the two pistols. All he was waiting for was the right opportunity to hand him one.

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“No, I am worried about him, I don’t want him in that vehicle, if he does or says anything during the job, it might raise suspicion and then he will be caught, and if he gets caught, we all get caught… I have half a mind to take him out first, but we might need his help. He is a weak point though.”

“I agree. That’s why I asked.”

“And I really don’t know the answer, we will find out in five days, till then let’s follow our plan. I think it is the best we can do. Though I know one thing… Ramesh has his eyes set on the money, and he will do any thing to get his hands on it.”

“That I agree with, and that’s what worries me too, what if he gets too greedy?”

“There are always a lot of things that can go wrong, let’s just focus on the things that can go right for now, and hopefully it ends the way we want it to. Let’s just hope that Murphy’s Law doesn’t apply to us, at least not this time.”

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