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“For one, the darker it gets, the better it is for us… but if it does not get dark, we can at least delay them till  the last bus on this route is gone. One less thing to worry about. As for any surprise traffic we will deal with it, as it comes,” Vikas replied, “But the later it is, the lesser chance of a vehicle coming and surprising us.”

Rahul nodded his head in agreement, and Ramesh, as usual, was impressed by Vikas’ foresightedness.

“After that if possible you have to take out the exchange, or better still do it well before the day, maybe in the morning, in a way that does not say sabotage. Something simple but even if you can’t, it is a big worry, so just do the best you can.”  

“Ok!” Ramesh said.  

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Rahul didn’t say anything, but his face had an expression that  said, “Are we talking about stealing candy from a child or a Bank Robbery?”

“It will be as easy as stealing candy from a child” Vikas said.

Rahul was startled, and he wondered if he had said his thoughts out loud. Vikas was smiling and looking at the both of them. Anyone who could see the three men at that moment would not take long to figure that Vikas was the leader of the group, and the other two were mere players.  And the players were content with being players.

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“I am all for it. I think it can be done, I was paying more attention today, and there is no security, we can easily haul in the money and run,” Ramesh began.  

“And run where? we are no robbers or criminals,” Vikas said, a little irritated.  “What do you think Rahul?”  

“I think your plan is the best, we can take Ramesh’s help to fill in the details and then act. But I noticed that we have only twenty days to figure out everything, otherwise the money will be gone and all will be in vain.”  

“Yes…twenty days, but twenty days are more than enough.”  

“Ok! here is the final plan then”, Vikas continued, “Rahul and me will leave this place a few days before the actual day… we are away often so it won’t rouse any suspicion. On the day we won’t be able to contact each other, neither will we try…so everything has to be very well planned. On the day, we meet at some place, possibly looking as different from our usual self as we can, just passing by through this area, then we will wait at that blind curve near the village. I chose that point because it’s not in sight and in that area there is no cell phone signal. Ramesh, you get them to leave a little late somehow… that can be easily done, I think… then  you have to get the telephone exchange down. It’s not  something that has not happened before, so they will not be too worried about it. The best way to do it would  be to somehow cut the electric supply of the exchange. They don’t have back up so as soon as the lights go out, the phones go out; If we are lucky the power will be out as it is on that day.  

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Ramesh looked first at one face and then at the other, and when he realized that the two friends were serious, he said simply, “Its not easy”

“That’s why we need your help, you will be our inside man!”

“The one who always gets caught.”

“And if you get caught, I am sure you will blurt out our names, so when we ask you to join us, we intend to keep you safe. One for all and all for one.”

“Let’s hear the plan,” Ramesh said after some moments of silence.

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“Good,” Vikas said.

There was silence as the two friends walked towards their offices, and I followed them.

“Let’s hear your plan!” Rahul said jokingly.

“The plan is simple. The day the transfer of money is to be made, we cause some trouble in the vehicle in which the money is to be transferred, so that by the time they are ready to leave it’s a bit late. And we will let them get the message across to the big bank branch that they are late . Then as soon as they leave we can cause the telephone exchange to go out and thus this area loses all connection with the outside world. Then as we will have already arranged we will stop the vehicle on the road and get away with the money.”

“And all of this will be done by just the two of us?”

“NO! we need a third one.”

“And who will that be?”  

“Ramesh.”  

“You can’t be serious. He works for the bank.” 

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