{"id":4604,"date":"2021-10-07T09:09:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T09:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earnovel.com\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2021-10-07T09:09:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T09:09:54","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earnovel.com\/?p=4604","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sameer<\/p>\n<p>A sharp intake of breath shook my hand and I spilt coffee on my pajamas as I read a shortboxed news item stating the Police suspected and named two youngsters involved in last week&#8217;s bankheist, Mandeep Singh and Tanya Jhuman. The Manager of the small agricultural loan bank claimed thesum involved was over five million Rupees. I couldn&#8217;t believe my eyes. The CCTV cameras showedtwo people with face masks &#8211; my heart rate accelerated and my breathing followed. My dream girl hadreally fallen into bad company. I must do something. I can&#8217;t let my future wife go to the bin. Thatwon&#8217;t do at all. Ideas and plans poured into my consciousness and were quickly discarded.And then it came to me.<\/p>\n<p>I had met and interacted with Alfred Xavier a couple of years ago when he impressed me withhis thoroughness and professionalism. Alfred operated an exclusive detective set-up with three malesand a woman. I bumped into him a number of times on the street and never once did I recognize him,He would be an old man shuffling along leaning on a stick, at times a young lad with a crew cut andfaded jeans, then again wearing spectacles and supporting a beard, at other times he would look a hobowith a torn jacket and a hunch back, sorting through trash in the street bin. All these disguises weredone in the line of duty and it was only when he winked at me that I recognized him.I summoned Alfred on the phone and told him what I wanted. He was an expensive man, butmy parents had left me a fortune which I dipped into only if I had to and this was a cause whichcertainly deserved thorough investigation.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sameer<\/p>\n<p>A sharp intake of breath shook my hand and I spilt coffee on my pajamas as I read a shortboxed news item stating the Police suspected and named two youngsters involved in last week&#8217;s bankheist, Mandeep Singh and Tanya Jhuman. The Manager of the small agricultural loan bank claimed th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a_tryst_with_destiny"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earnovel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}