The link to my previous post.
http://meerajay.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/05/the-run-part-4.htm

Ring! Ring! the telephone bell rang. Rhuksana was startled at the sudden call. Irritated, she spoke in a rude tone.. "Hello!"

"Stay out of the case or you will soon meet your end."

"What! Hello? Hello? Hello?"...... the caller hung up. Rukhsana was stunned. I have to inform Sachin about this without fail. Fear shook her and she began to tremble. She curled into the comforter. Put on some music and tried to sleep.

Suddenly she got up, ran to her telephone, looked at the caller id, copied the number in her scribbly notepad and then slept.

The next day Sachin's office was over-crowded with dealers, who claimed to have the same shoe pattern. He tried to match the shoes but there was nothing that could match the shoe. Rukhsana also received mails from other dealers regarding this. Some were out of state too..

" Wonder when we will find Cinderella's other shoe and Cinderella!! heheh" she giggled.

"Sachin ! I forgot to tell you about this call, that I received yesterday night. He threatened me. This is the number."

"You should have told me this first! You are so naive and stupid! Wonder how you became a detective" he barked.

Rukhsana managed a cute smile and then he smiled too. "Sorry" he said.

He asked his team to trace this call. In a few minutes,

"It's from Crescent Road."

"Wait!!! I have a dealer who mailed me, that he has the same kind of shoes, from Crescent Road!!" She exclaimed.

"Then we better hurry!" It was an 90 minutes drive. They both jumped in the jeep. The first few minutes was spent in utter silence. All of sudden the vehicle jerked and Sachin applied breaks. A huge tree was uprooted and lay there like a mountain. 

"Holy cow!" he screamed, thundered out of the jeep and moved the tree with his strong arms. Rukhsana clicked and clicked and giggled!

Sachin had started to develope a fondness for this bubbly girl. Her little pranks and chirpy laughter made this cut throat man smile. But , to him it seemed one-sided. He could not guess if she liked him. She maintained a kind of neutral feeling.

" I should ask....." he thought.

They reached the address which the team had given. It was an STD booth. Upon enquiry, the man claimed that he could not remember who came to call, because, there were so many of them calling daily. Understandable.

They reached the dealer's store. He gave them the address. Sachin and Rukhsana reached the door. It was an very old house.Broken doors, windows, creepy atmosphere. A lot of cobwebs. Overgrown weeds in the front and back yard. A strange smell.

Sachin walked straight and Rukhsana walked in another direction. She began to click pictures as usual, and also started to hunt for clues. Sachin was in the backyard. He was into the case, but now he was kind of dreaming and smiling to himself.

Suddenly he felt three hard stabs on his back and warm blood gushing through his stomach. 

He turned to see...

A man smiling , showing his red pan teeth.... Rustum, and another figure very familiar to him walked from behind Rustum..........

"UH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the pain was spinning like a tornado and he dropped dead....

To be concluded....