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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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