with the goatee!’ Lalmohan Babu and I cried together, ‘Was that you?’
‘Yes,’ Feluda laughed. ‘That was my disguise number two. I felt I had to stay close to you, since we were dealing with a dangerous man. Anyway, he swallowed my bait at once. He thought a few sharp words from him would really make Lalmohan Babu return the head to him, and he could get away with it once again. Well, we all know what happened next.
‘There is only one thing left for me to say: Mr Mallik and his agency will get full credit for their share in catching this gang. And I shall pray for a promotion for Mr Ghote. I must also thank Mr Kulkarni for the important role he played, but if a medal for courage and bravery could be given to anyone, it should go jointly to Tapeshranjan Mitter and Lalmohan Ganguli.’
‘Hear, hear!’ said Mr Mallik, and the others clapped enthusiastically.
When the applause died down, Lalmohan Babu turned to Feluda and said a little hesitantly, ‘Does that mean … this time my weapon didn't come into any use at all?’
Feluda looked perfectly amazed. ‘Not come into use? What are you talking about? Where do you think all that smoke came from? It was no ordinary bomb, sir. Do you know what it was? A 356 megaton special military smoke bomb!’
Read the other Adventures of Feluda in Puffin
The Emperor’s Ring
Trouble in Gangtok
The Golden Fortress
The Incident on the Kalka Mail
The Royal Bengal Mystery
The Mystery of the Elephant God
The Bandits of Bombay
The House of Death
The Curse of the Goddess
Trouble in the Graveyard
The Criminals of Kathmandu
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‘Yes,’ Feluda laughed. ‘That was my disguise number two. I felt I had to stay close to you, since we were dealing with a dangerous man. Anyway, he swallowed my bait at once. He thought a few sharp words from him would really make Lalmohan Babu return the head to him, and he could get away with it once again. Well, we all know what happened next.
‘There is only one thing left for me to say: Mr Mallik and his agency will get full credit for their share in catching this gang. And I shall pray for a promotion for Mr Ghote. I must also thank Mr Kulkarni for the important role he played, but if a medal for courage and bravery could be given to anyone, it should go jointly to Tapeshranjan Mitter and Lalmohan Ganguli.’
‘Hear, hear!’ said Mr Mallik, and the others clapped enthusiastically.
When the applause died down, Lalmohan Babu turned to Feluda and said a little hesitantly, ‘Does that mean … this time my weapon didn't come into any use at all?’
Feluda looked perfectly amazed. ‘Not come into use? What are you talking about? Where do you think all that smoke came from? It was no ordinary bomb, sir. Do you know what it was? A 356 megaton special military smoke bomb!’
Read the other Adventures of Feluda in Puffin
The Emperor’s Ring
Trouble in Gangtok
The Golden Fortress
The Incident on the Kalka Mail
The Royal Bengal Mystery
The Mystery of the Elephant God
The Bandits of Bombay
The House of Death
The Curse of the Goddess
Trouble in the Graveyard
The Criminals of Kathmandu
PUFFIN BOOKS
Published by the Penguin Group
Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110 017, India
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA
Penguin Books (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.)
Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
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Penguin Group (Australia), 707 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3008, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd)
Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, Auckland 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd)
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Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Office: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
First published in Puffin by Penguin Books India 2003
Copyright © The Estate of Satyajit Ray 2003
This translation copyright © Penguin Books India 2003
ISBN: 978-01-4333-566-5
All rights reserved
This digital edition published in 2011.
e-ISBN: 978-81-8475-213-7
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual person, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
This e-book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser and without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above-mentioned publisher of this e-book.
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