177 OLD HOUSE

"You no need to thank me, grandma. It is your thing after all. You have all the rights to keep it with you. Grandma, I and Dolly want to know something from you. Are you comfortable to discuss certain things with us? We want to ask about some other things related to grandpa."Zinu said with hesitation.

Although they came here to ask Mrs Smith about any other clues regarding the map, now they were hesitating to ask, as they don't know if Mrs Smith would like the idea or not.

" Zinu, Dolly both of you listen carefully. I told you earlier also that don't think yourself different from this family. What I have, everything is yours. Just tell me, what do you want. I will try to provide you with everything ."Mrs Smith said with a smile.

"Grandma, as we told you earlier when we were searching for the map, we got some words in the pendant as well as in the painting. But we both are thinking that there must be something else, where we can get some clues. At first, we did not know what to search for, but now we know what type of symbol or words we have to search. In the pendant and the painting, we got only seven words in total. So we are thinking that there must be some more words in some other place also. We think that grandpa must try to deliver some message about the map by using the code language."Zinu said thoughtfully.

Mrs Smith sat there silent. She lost in thought. After five minutes, she looked at them. Zinu and Dolly were waiting patiently for her response.

"OK. I understand. Now tell me what do you want from me? What can I do to help you both in this matter? You have got all the materials which I have stored as the memory of Oliver. I tried to remember, but could not remember anything else which I have, related to Oliver. As you have said it is possible that there must be something else, which Oliver used to deliver the message, but what that other thing might be, I have no idea. What do you think? Where do you want to search for? If you have any about this just tell me. I will try to help you both."Mrs Smith said.

"Grandma, actually Zinu and I want to visit your old home, on which you lived with grandpa. We think there should be something which could help us to get the clue."Dolly said in low voice.

They both knew that nobody would allow them to visit that place again, as that place is under the observation of Lucas. They even could not gather the courage to ask John about visiting the place. They knew that, whoever visits the place, would be alert Lucas. Lucas knew that place so often. So, Dolly and Zinu wanted to convince Mrs Smith first, as they knew that John or Charlie would never allow them to visit there. It was a risky task.

Mrs Smith had gone through a lot for this map, now she did not want something bad happened to her family. She got a happy family after so long.

"Grandma, you should not worry about us. We will not go there like a normal visitor. We can go there in disguising as a cleaner or gardener. We just don't want to inform John about it. He is very busy you know. If we tell him about it, he would be worried. We don't want to make worry you for this, but we need only your permission to enter the house. You can arrange some work to clean the house, and I and Dolly can disguise our self easily as the worker and enter the house. Nobody would suspect us if we enter there as the cleaner. Even Lucas would also think that you are only cleaning the house. So we come to you. Please grandma. Let us go there. We got something here. We are sure that we must get there something important which would help us for further investigation."

Zinu tried to convince her. She knew that Mrs Smith would not convince so easily, as she always thinks of the safety and security of the family members than any other things. Mrs Smith lost in deep thought for a long time. Dolly and Zinu waited for her reply for a long time. They did not disturb her. After sometime Mrs Smith took her mobile phone and messaged someone. She waited patiently for the reply. After ten minutes the got a reply from Mrs Smith. Zinu could see the happiness in her eyes.

"Listen carefully Zinu and Dolly. I just sent a message to the caretaker and got the reply. Actually, as per the documents, I sold the house to the caretaker of the house. I have an agreement with him that he and his wife would live in that house in their respective rooms until their death, as they have no house to live in.

They were very poor. They could not afford to buy a house. I managed to cover up his financial condition in front of the world, so nobody knew that he is too poor to buy the house. Now as per documents, he is the owner of that house. In the agreement, it was mentioned that I can take the house in my custody at any time. They would live at that house as a caretaker. They would not touch anything of the house, which is not under their area.

Actually,I did not want to part myself from that house, but I was compelled to do so for my family. 

If you really want to go there,you can get everything you want. But I don't think it is a good idea to go there."Mrs Smith said and paused for a while.