A secret message
A secret message
Inspector james was at his office that Sunday. There was an
urgent case which needed his attention. A thirteen-year old girl had been
kidnapped near her home a few days ago.
It happened like this, Shirley, the kidnap victim, was
walking towards her house when she was kidnapped by four burly men in red a
van. Two of the men grabbed the poor girl and carried her into the van which
speeds off immediately. A neighbor had witnessed his incident who quickly
informed her parents had together lodged a police report. The next day, a
ransom note had been sent to her wealthy parents. Demanding a quarter of a
million dollars to secure her release. The police were trying all they could to
rescue the girl and to apprehend her kidnappers.
That Sunday morning, inspector James had received a
mysterious message at his office. It was send by mail in a white envelope and
written on a plain white A4-size paper. It read
The girl is saving for the moment. Hurry or she will be
raped and killed when the ransom is paid.
The message was signed “A Friend”. Inspector Jems knew that
what message indicated could well be true. Shirley would have seen the faces of
the kidnappers and they might well kill her when they had received the money to
save themselves from being identified in future.
But who had written the message? It seemed to Inspector Jems
that it must be one of the kidnappers who did not want to be accessory to
murder. Inspector Jems scrutinized the piece of paper and turned it first one
side and then the other. The writer had told him to hurry but he had not
revealed the place where the girl was held captive.
He pondered over this message for a long while and then an
idea struck him. He went to the wastepaper basket and retrieved the envelope in
which the message was sent. There right before his eyes was the address of an
industrial office building in Mamba Street. That was the actual message, the
location of the kidnappers.
Inspector Jems quickly gathered a force of his men and
raided the location. It proved to be true. The kidnappers, who thought that
they were sitting pretty, were not prepared for the police raid and were
quickly overpowered wand arrested. The girl was found tied to a chair and was
not harmed in any way.
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