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It happened with the dusk
CHAPTER 4
I took a breath and put the letter back in the box and my grandma asked ,"who is he ,how do you help him".There was no reason for hiding to my sweet grandama as everything was sorted now so i unvieled the incident .She asked me who was the criminal ,so i got up to the table with a pile of news papers and took out the one with his photograph .Here it is my grandma i showed her but she brought the paper close to his eyes and the look on his face was that she was trying to recognise him by searching through the lanes of his life's memories .After sometime she turned to me," Is his name Mathews"?.I searched for his name but his name was not mentioned.I asked my granda in a confusing tone,"Do you know him grandma ".She turned to me and asked me to bring the box inside her room over the almirah .The old dust coated box filled with the stuff of memories .I bought it to my grandma and she too an album and began to search something ,and she said" there is he,Mathews yor godfather!.I shouted in a stamering tone ,"What my Godfather!",i looked at the picture so closely as i could to compare it with the that of newspaper and it same the same person ,Mathews ,my godfather.I was not able to say a word,confused shocked or worried i don't know but yeah i came to know why i was feeling so attached to a criminal.A lot was going inside my mind ,a criminal my gadfather ,do he know who i am ?.After a storm going in my mind i asked my grandma why i dnt know untill now about him ,is he really a criminal .My grandma put my head in her lap and begin to move her fingers through my hair which i always enjoyed but this time i was having a strange feeling but it somehow calmed the storm inside me.She began to explaining that he was my fathers friend and my godfather but when i was 5 years old he got totally disappers without informing ,your father did everything to know his whereabouts but all in vain ,we thaught he may have died so we never disclosed it to you.I was trying to decode the chaos in my mind as this coincident i have never thaught ,my grandma said ,"He was a very nice man,with kindheart and hatred again the crime ,Don't know what had happened to him which turned him into a criminal.That night was hard to pass ,hardly slept a while so i decieded to take one day off from my job, for i was totally in a mess with my life .
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