Ah! Where did Sukumarbabu come back from? '
"I don't know, sir."
‘When did he return?’
"Twenty-five minutes after Motibabu left."
Bidhubabu's eyebrows deepened. He thought for a moment, Then he said, ‘You can go now. If necessary, you will have Ezehar again. '
Pachakathakur fell to the ground, bowed down and fled. Bidhubabu then asked the other policemen to leave the house. Only Byomkesh and I stayed at home. Bidhubabu turned to us and said, ‘You see, after interrogating someone, everything came out. If you know how to interrogate well — whatever, if you don't understand from the beginning, you will not understand. I am telling you all the things that have been known about the statements of everyone in the house - listen carefully. '
Byomkesh nodded and listened in silence. The widow began to say, ‘The one who was the master of this house, She was widowed and childless. He is a well-to-do man, has four or five houses in Kolkata, and has a bank deposit of Rs 3 lakh.
‘Even though he has no wife or son, he does not lack nutrition. Three nephews — Motilal, Makhanlal and Phanibhushan, and Shali's two sons and daughters were all raised by Karalibabu. They all live in this house. There is no one in their family.
‘As far as is known, Karalibabu was a man of terrible temperament. He was crippled by rheumatism and was sixty-two years old, so he never left his house. But the people of the house feared him like a tiger. He had a strange madness — he only made his own will. His three wills are out of the drawer. In the first he inherited Makhan, in the second he inherited Motilal, And in the end, he gave all his property to Sukumar. The last will was made the day before yesterday. Sukumar is now his heir.
‘The reason for changing the will from Karalibabu was that when he was angry with anyone, Then he would be dismissed from the will.
‘Karalibabu got into a heated argument with Motilal about this will yesterday afternoon. Motilal has many faults in his body — he abuses him like ‘dead in the ghats’, ‘old man in the seventies’ etc.
‘Then at about twelve o’clock in the night Motilal secretly fled the house — both Bamun and the servant saw him fleeing. This morning, Karalibabu was found dead in his bed.
‘No one understood how death happened at first. I came and knocked him out — he had been stabbed in the neck with a needle in the middle of the medallion and the first vertebra.
When Bidhubabu was silent, Byomkesh raised her face, ‘What a surprise! Medala and First Cervical Vertibra have been stabbed to death at the joint, Absolutely Bride of Lammermoor! ’He thought for a while and said,‘ Have you issued a warrant in the name of Motilal? Did the man do anything or was there any news? '
The widow said, ‘Nothing — nothing! Vidya up to third class, Ghor Bayat. I used to eat my uncle's food, and I used to go to Belleragiri. '
Byomkesh asked, "And Makhanlal?"
‘He’s almost like Grandpa, but not so much. He eats cocaine and marijuana, But like Dada, he has not become a name-cut sepai yet. '
‘And Phanibhushan?’
‘He’s lame again. In words, the lame duck grows one time, but this dodge is probably not so bad. The reason is that he cannot leave the house because he is lame. Of the three brothers, this phanibhushan felt a little like a human being. '
‘And Sukumar?’
‘Sukumar is a very good boy, in his fifth year of medical college. His sister Satyavati also went to college. They are two brothers and sisters who used to take care of the old man. '
‘Are they all probably unmarried?’
"Yes, that girl too."
Nice writing.