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The next day, the two of them went to the Principal’s What kind of
office. They were waiting outside, wondering what they conversation is Kavita Connect
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should say, when the door opened and he came out with and Dipali having about
his arm around Mr Ghosh. ‘Excellent,’ he was saying. Mr Ghosh? Will you call it a

‘Don’t worry, you have time until the end of the year!’ gossip, debate or persuasion?

Quietly, the girls sidled away. Why would the Principal listen to their complaints about

Mr Ghosh when he seemed to have been taken in completely by whatever Mr Ghosh had
told him?

It was Rohan who triggered off the next problem. He got a bit late at dinner one night and
as he was returning from the dining hall, he saw a figure enter the roughly fenced-in lot
next to the girls’ dormitory. ‘Hey, you can’t go in there!’ he cried, but he was ignored.

As a junior captain, he took his responsibilities very seriously and he ran towards the area,

entering from the same opening as the man he had seen in the dark.
Suddenly, he gave a yell and then there was silence.

Kavita and Dipali had reached their doorstep when they heard him. They raced to the
source of the sound.

‘Hold on, we are coming!’ cried Kavita, seeing
that open flap of plastic in the cordoned off area.

They ran in too, but had hardly taken a step
when the ground gave way beneath their feet
and they slid down into a pit, landing in a heap

on top of Rohan.

Standing above them, shining a torch on their
faces was the sinister figure of Mr Ghosh.

‘What are you doing here?’ he asked. ‘Don’t
you know this is out of bounds for you?’

Rohan found his voice first. ‘We know. But it is
out of bounds for everyone, and I was trying to

stop you from entering. I am a junior captain
and it is a part of my job.’

Mr Ghosh stared at the three of them and Kavita sidled away: avoided someone or
something by moving to the side
shivered. What would he do to them? Would they triggered off: initiated or started
be buried along with the skull she had seen in the something, often a chain of events or a
reaction
basement? Couldn’t all three of them fight him? sinister: evil, giving an impression of
being dangerous or threatening

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