The hat did give a shade .
Rajasthans summer had faded , and winter was awaited .
It all started in Jaishalmer .
He had arrived in the train an overnight one from Ahmedabad .
The sun wasnt hot but it was piercing .
He scaled the fort quickly his eyes darting to locate the target .
He had to find him and quickly
He had taken a jeep driven into desert and then the camel ride he learnt Khan bought a revolver as he suspected
He returned to the fort went up
It was his brief .
To stop Khan getting away with the papers .
The tingle in his bluetooth brought Sharma Sir to his ears .
" Anything
Nope searching
Tc "
They were cryptic men of few words .
He climbed into the second terrace jumping across the barrier
The big moustachioed security guy jumped agiley to him
"Arrey yehi permission nahi hey saab jaao ".
He pinned him with a stare and showed his card .
Hari Singh
Asst Director RAW
The man saluted saab acha sorry saab
He sprinted ahead to the parapet close to the cannon and peeped down
He had a birds eye view now
He spotted him way down having an earthen cup of chai .
He was feverishly harried
he almost looked up
Hari singh pulled his head down and in two minutes he peeped back but the man had fled by then
he saw him getting into an auto .
He jumped down
got into lift
"Jaldi ...jaana " he told the security who wordlessly took him down .
No one messed with Raw agents .
He asked some auto drivers found out the man had gone to the Rly station .
He too hopped into one and reached the station.
The Jodphur express was just speeding awat as he reached the platform
he knew Khan had fled but he guessed to where .
Jodphur was more plausible .
The papers were there in the Ubaid bhavan
Why did he come here then ?
For the revolver of course and best place to get one who had sprinted across border was Jaishalmer .
He patted his berret and took the next train to Jodphur
He would reach Umaid bhavan .
By tommorow evening he would finish his work .
Khan will not go back to Multan he thought.
He would say goodbye in the centoph the cemetry of the royals of Rathore dynasty he will see to it .
Its time he got even with Khan
he was one up ,when he finished off
Raju nair in 87
its 3 decades but we rarely forget man .
Umaid bhavan he stepped out of the antique car waiting in the station for him
The Rajah had sent it for him his old friend .
He checked in to his reserved suite
Nothing but the best
He remembered the long evenings when they sipped the amber single malts in the freezing winter nights
But this time that will wait
Khan was in his mind now
He knew by now khan would have planned the exchange .
His sources told him it would be in the centoph .
Today
Now
He hurriedly left in the car git down in the centoph and with the tourists walked into the setting sun
He left the crowds turned behind a tomb jumped down into the bushes and peered ahead
It was dusk but he spotted Khan in the fading light
Khan he called out loudly
He was with the traitor
Both drew thier guns but then Khan knew a second chance with Hari singh wasnt heard of
Two silent shots felled them both in a nano second
Hari singh took off his hat
Time he left his hair loose
He touched his bluetooth
Done
Sharma smiled in Mumbai .
And so did the Rajah of Jodphur while dropping the ice into the whiskey .
A long evening with his old friend
Hari
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