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The Dual Trap
Steve was speechless, he stood there in surprise while George was looking at the pictures that he took from those blue writings, but his expressions weren't telling a different story. Steve couldn't wait any longer he got close to George to see the pictures. "Come on show me man, what's in it..."
"I'd wish I knew..." George said in a disappointment.
"What do you mean...?"
"It's some sort of code..." George squinted his eyes focusing on the picture, and then he begin to read it "454354 0 32111551 0 41433351 0 11 0 214222 0 23423444113151 0 215444 0 454354 0 3444421313 0 32111551 0 3111333151 0 454354 0 32111551 0 4443 0 415113155124 0... and it goes on till all the three pages..."
"What the hell...man....What the hell is going on here...I don't understand. Why are they making such a big deal out of it...Couldn't they say it, the easy way...the human way...this is bullshit." It was way out of Steve's intellect and that's what pissed him off. He got off the chair and was wandering to and fro displaying a typical state of anxiety
"Well it seems something important to me, otherwise who would use such an obsolete technique to deliver this message." George waved his head while looking at Steve.
"So can you figure out what it is...?" Steve asked.
"I don't know man...maybe I can but it'll sure take time..?" George shook his head.
"Well then get on to it, time is what we don't have.... God knows in what state Rosey and my kids are... I am worried man..." Steve increased his pace of to and fro movement.
"Relax man...everything is gonna be fine...and I am sure that if they have sent you the letter, there must be something that they want... and they wouldn't hurt them until they get their hands on it..." George tried to cool him a bit. "And besides worrying isn't gonna help us...is it?"
Steve nodded his head and sat on his chair, George did made a point and Steve seemed relieved now.
"By the way....what did you do to those letters...when that blue glowing writing appeared while red fire all around it ...it seemed really cool...it was really something..." Steve eyes showing appreciation.
"That's a little trick I learned...from someone..." George smiled. Steve still looked confused, seemed like he wasn't satisfied with the answer.
"OK.....OK....I'll explain, don't give me that look..." George giggled and then started to explain "Well this was the method used by many Germans during World War II..... They used to send secret messages like this..."
"Seems fair enough...but what I am wondering is ...what thing they used to write it....? And what did you used to recover it...?" Steve's question was pretty much valid.
"Well they used diluted organic acid...umm...let me put it simple they used diluted lemon juice or onion juice to write it...."
"What...really, lemon juice..., didn't know lemon juice was that much handy...and what did you used to recover the writings?"
"In order to recover it, I used cobalt chloride..., it's a chemical... which reacts with organic acid to form esters and turns blue when heated..."
Steve nodded, like he understood everything..."Hmm....seems like a lot of physics... I was never good in it..."
"Chemistry...its Chemistry Steve..." George smiled. Steve winked his eye at George and they both laughed.
George went inside his study room and started to analyze those pictures in his laptop while Steve was dozing around in the lounge. Steve got up and went into study room after him.
"Hey George..."
George was busy in his laptop. He answered him "Yeah" Without taking his eyes off the laptop”.
"I am thinking it's gonna take you awhile...so I am gonna go home...I'll come back to check on you later..."
"Ok"...George’s eyes still looking at that laptop.
Since the kidnap of the rosemary, Steve didn't like to spend much time in home, He even used to spend his nights in office working till late nights and then sleeping on the desk over his work without knowing.
Steve got in his Chevrolet sport car and drove towards his home. Steve home is at a distance of half an hour from George home. When Steve reached there....Even though the gate was closed but guard wasn't there (Who was supposed to be there)... he opened the door by himself and parked his car inside.
As he entered the home....He stood there stunned. To his surprise again whole house was messed up...everything was torn apart, this time a lot of furniture was broken too. He was merely just out for 1-2 hours and all this just happened. It was the second time; first, when rosemary vanished and now again.
After Steve’s departure, George was trying really hard, to decode the message. He contacted some of his friends and also searched in the Crime data base to check out the records of previously sent and received secrets code, so that he might get a clue about it, but it didn't match to any, it was different. Here's the thing that to write a Code first you need to have a key-book. Without the key-book neither can you write a code nor can you decode it... George tried several Key-books on it, but all in-vain....Suddenly George straighten his head; it usually happens when an idea pops up in his head.
George got off of his laptop and headed toward the Shelf containing History books (He was fond of reading books and he had tons of it in home, sort of library). He took out one of the Book named "Unrevealed Brutality of World War II".... It was autobiography of one his uncle who revealed many secret events that occurred during World War II, due to which his book was banned. He turned over a lot of pages and stopped at one of the page.... Means of Communication...
George came up with the idea, that previously he was able to reveal the letter contents by using an obsolete method, used in World War II, maybe this time they might have used one of those key-books that were also used back then. And luckily his uncle mentioned quite sum of key-books in his book.
George wasn't wrong, one of the key-books started to match and make sense... A victory smile appeared on George face and he began decoding the code...while he was decoding the code, he smiled and said (talking to himself)....
"I am glad, I did it. Otherwise a guy like Steve, who takes chemistry to be physics would never be able to figure that out ....." and Suddenly George stopped and remained stunned there for a while....he again started to think out loud.
"They knew that Steve would never been able to figure this out, and they also knew that he won't go to police...." George ran inside... talking out loudly... "Dammit, they knew all along that Steve would come to me...and ask for my help ....and in the mean time they would search his home again... " He took his jacket and ran towards his car, he started it and went out crazily. "Ohh crap... this was all a set up...There is a chance they might still be there ....Steve is in danger....I am coming man...please be alive…"
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