The Prince Of Whales (6) Dr. Chad and Captain roger Felix gave signals to the crewmembers to spread around and see if there is anyone living in the huts. They searched every thing and concluded that there is nobody there. Then they settled their things in the huts and took bath in the lake and washed their clothes and began to relax in a barbarous manner. They were yelling screaming and enjoying the cold beer. Sam heard the noise and went up to the mound and saw all the vehicles, rigging machines and armed men and women. He ran to Boris and Joan and told them, �we have company�. It is too far for them to notice the eastside activities. Dr. Chad�s company is on the Westside and there is absolutely no way for them to come to the eastside except by the rope ladder. Sam said, �I will go down and see what they are up to�. Joan followed him to the top of the mound and dressed him with the bamboo costume. Sam went down and reached the huts. He dressed himself like a bamboo bush and quietly came to the thatched house from behind. He listened to the conversations of Dr. Chad and Captain Roger Felix. He recognized them and understood that they were looking for the goldhill. Suddenly a crewmember came in and gave the cordless telephone to Dr. Chad. The Big Boss is on the line and he wanted to tell some thing to Dr. Chad and Captain Roger Felix. Dr. Chad carefully listened to the new instructions from the Big Boss. He then repeated and said, �yes, I clearly understood what you have just told me. We will find the handicapped boy and finish him if he is still alive. We will conduct the geological survey here and see how close we are to the Goldhill Island. We have every thing until next fortnight. We will send you the results right away whenever it is�. Then the Big Boss gave some personal instructions to Dr. Chad about Captain Roger Felix and his crewmembers. He then told Captain Roger Felix to be careful with the scientists. The Big Boss knows how to play with their minds. They know how to play with each other. They both wondered how the Big Boss came to know about all these things with every minor detail. They came out from the big thatched house and gave instructions to the rig workers to start their work. The geological survey workers moved their heavy machinery and started digging the holes in the seabed to check if they were on the Goldhill Island. Sam heard every thing and proceeded back to the rope ladder. Suddenly he remembered some thing and went back. Joan was watching him from the mound and trying to signal him to return quickly. But he was not paying attention to Joan�s silent signals. Sam took a set of binoculars and proceeded towards the rope ladder. He recollected some thing else and went back to search for some wireless apparatus. He grabbed the additional radio equipment, small but powerful dynamos and cordless phones from a vehicle and returned to the rope ladder. He recollected the last thing and went back and took some special grenades. The rig workers saw the moving bamboo bush here and there but they did not notice Sam at all. He finally came to the rope ladder and reached the mound with all those items. Joan helped him to carry those things to Boris. Sam gathered all the old folks and explained them about what Dr. Chad and Captain Roger Felix were up to. Joan told every thing that she knew about Dr. Chad and the other scientists. Boris Jacobson remembered Captain Fredrick Felix Senior the father of Captain Roger Felix Junior. The old folks clearly understood that these guys are bad news. They can either hide from these bad guys for a while or they can go down and take all their vehicles and escape from the island. They can kill them one by one or blast them all at once. They have several options. The ball is in the old folk�s court now. Few old men plus Sam and Joan against some forty-armed men and women is a hard choice to decide. There is way from eastside to go down to the Westside but absolutely not other way around. The eastside area is a mound and the Westside area is in the valley. Boris had enough plan to handle the situation. According to his diplomatic and prophetic theory those armed men and women will soon start fighting among themselves and eventually shoot each other. Therefore they must wait and see. Sam started to put the things together and operated the radio equipment. He could hear whenever those guys radioed to others. He could also hear when others were sending messages. He could interrupt their messages by sending false messages to them mimicking different voices and to confuse them. They watched their activities through binoculars. Boris analyzed the whole situation and came up with his plan two. According to his latest analysis, the bad guys would eventually come to know about the eastside activity. They would find some helicopter means and would fly around the eastside area. Therefore before it happens they must get ready to face it. But how they could possibly avoid it even before it does happen? For now they must develop at least two observation points one in the north side and one in the south side with better communications. They must cover the caves with trees. They must stop cooking with firewood to avoid smoke. They must minimize their open-air activities. They must construct a boat and wait until the seawater flows up to the mound level again. This seemed like a long time process and there is no surety that the seawater ever comes up to the mound level again. Constructing the boat also takes time. According to Joan�s plan they must find a way to send a message to Shea without being noticed by the bad guys. But this could also be a very risky job. They all decided to do the first things first. They started covering the caves with tree branches. Sam luckily stopped the radio apparatus when the bad guys were talking about the unexpected signals from the eastside. One of them was trying to focus his binoculars towards the eastside slope and telling the other guy some thing like, �we must go there by a helicopter round the hill�. And the other guy went to Captain Roger Felix and told him that they need to fly around the hill to see the eastside area also. Captain Roger Felix contacted Rodrigo and told him, �we need a helicopter to go around the hill to see if there is any sign of your step nephew on the eastside�. Rodrigo said that he would take care of that immediately and send the helicopter. Chapter ten You are an angel Rodrigo! Feggy was in the bathtub in her castle bathroom. She was thinking about Sam and Shea all the time and trying to console herself. The maid knocked the bathroom door but Feggy said, �don�t disturb me damn you�. The maid went away. Feggy thought of calling Lillian to see how she is doing. She took the receiver and dialed to the guesthouse. Lillian and Rodrigo were making wild love. For them nothing really mattered. The telephone was making terrible noise. It did not bother them as it bothered the attendants. They did not dare to come into the room. Then Eliza walked in and took the receiver from the hook and put it on the table and went back to the porch. Rodrigo coolly took the receiver and said hello. Feggy was about to hang up. He loudly said hello. Feggy heard Rodrigo�s voice and asked him about Lillian. He said, �every thing is okay. Lillian is fine. She say hello. How are you? I am going to the hospital to see Shea now. I can see you there�. Feggy thanked him and came to the dressing room. She dressed up quickly and told the limou driver Jenson to get ready to take her to the hospital to see Shea. The old driver reminded her that she should take rest as doctors told her. She thought for a moment and said to the old man, �no. I must see Shea now�. Jenson brought her to the general family medical hospital. Rodrigo asked the chief whether he could talk with Shea. The doctor checked Shea�s condition and permitted Rodrigo into the special room. Shea was chained to the bed and he was talking to the nursing sister Cathy. He told her, �Cathy! You are like a daughter to me. You and Sam both grew up together. I am not asking you to untie me. But just go to my bookroom. Start the Internet and go to Sam�s watch files and communicate with him. If I am wrong then tell me I am crazy�. She listened to him and understood every thing he said and promised him, �yes uncle Shea! I believe you. I will go to your bookroom and start the computer and I will do exactly as you told me and communicate with Sam and wait for the message. If he responds I will ask him his whereabouts and let you know tomorrow�. Shea thanked her again. As she is about to leave the room Shea told her again, �Cathy! Do not tell this to anyone. They think I am crazy. You do this for me and if I am wrong then you can also think I am crazy�. She closed her eyes and nodded to his challenge and left the room. Shea felt relaxed. Rodrigo knocked the door and came into the room and said, �how are you feeling Shea? Cathy told me that you need rest. I don�t want to disturb you. I came to tell you about the power of attorney that Feggy had suggested. I promise you that I will take care of the entire estate businesses according to the power of attorney until you come home�. Shea said, �thank you Rodrigo. Now you know that I am not crazy�. Shea said, �but you need rest. Cathy and I will go to your bookroom and see your computer and check the whereabouts of Sam as you asked Cathy. Tomorrow we will let you know if Sam sends any message. If he is still alive, we will go and find him and bring him. You don�t worry�. Shea said in tears, �you are an angel Rodrigo! God bless you, as you are the only person to understand me that I am not crazy. I will reward you for every thing when I come home. Tell Feggy that I am not crazy at all. I only need some rest. I want to talk to Feggy how to give you the power of attorney. Please let her know�. Rodrigo said, � I will call her right away. You take rest�. Rodrigo left the room and met the chief doctor and thanked him for his wonderful treatment. He came to the main hall and there he saw Feggy waiting for him. He told Feggy that Shea wanted to see her immediately. They both came to the elevator and waited. In the mean time the chief went to Shea�s room along with medicos and was explaining the case to the young trainees. Shea shouted at the chief and the duty nurse gave him the prescribed injection. By the time Feggy and Rodrigo came to the room Shea was in deep sleep again. Feggy was disappointed that she could not talk with Shea. Rodrigo said, �let him take rest. We will see him tomorrow. He asked me to take care of some thing in his bookroom with his computer. He gave me all the instructions how to operate the system and communicate with Sam in case he is still alive as Shea believes�. They both came back to the castle. Feggy showed him the bookroom. The nursing sister Cathy is already operating the computer. Feggy introduced her to Rodrigo and went to the dressing room. The servant brought coffee to Rodrigo. Cathy clicked the buttons and they saw the blinking on the screen. They both stooped down and anxiously waited for the message. They were shocked to see the message on the screen. It said, �dad! This is Sam, Joan and grandpa. Come with a naval rescue aircraft to Captain Roger Felix. Repeat contact Captain roger Felix. Repeat Contact Captain Roger Felix. Contact Captain Roger Felix�. The message is moving on the screen again and again. Rodrigo asked Cathy to type, �are you with Captain Roger Felix? Give us some evidence that you are really Sam�. The message said, �if you are not my dad, you are in danger. Please go to the police immediately�. Rodrigo asked Cathy to type, �danger from who? The message said, �this is from Captain Roger Felix. Who is this? What danger? We need a helicopter to go to the eastside. This is for Captain Roger Felix�. Rodrigo and the nursing sister were confused and typed, �hello Captain! This is from Shea Jacobson. Did you find Sam? Captain said, �not yet. But we need a helicopter�. Rodrigo typed, �okay. We will send you the helicopter immediately�. Captain said, �thanks and bye�. But the message continued on the screen, �dad! This is Sam, Joan and grandpa. Please send us the naval rescue aircrafts to this place. We are very close to Captain Roger Felix�. Feggy came in her nightdress and said, �is it working? How is it going? Is every thing okay? You both must have dinner with me tonight. I insist�. The nursing sister Cathy said, �its confusing. We have some old messages coming along with the new ones. You must see these messages�. Feggy sat on the chair and saw the messages. Then Cathy typed, �this is Feggy. Sam! Is that you? The message said, �this is from Captain Roger Felix. No news from Sam. We are waiting for the helicopter. Repeat send the helicopter soon, bye�. Rodrigo said, �there is no way for Sam to be with Captain Roger Felix. Someone is playing games with these messages. I must report this matter to the police immediately�. Feggy told the nursing sister to stop the computer and come for dinner. Rodrigo and Feggy proceeded towards the dining hall. Cathy is about to shut down the computer. She saw the message, �mom! This is Sam, Joan and grandpa. Send the naval rescue aircrafts to this place. We will meet you there�. Cathy typed, �Sam! This is Cathy! Where are you? What�s going on? Sam typed, �O! Cathy! We are in danger. Go to my class teacher Matthew. Open my file on his computer. Password Sam123. He knows how to contact me�. Cathy shut the computer down and came to the dinning hall. Rodrigo and Feggy were talking about those confusing messages. Seeing Cathy Rodrigo asked, �is every thing okay Cathy? Are you not joining us for dinner? Tell Feggy about the disturbances in the message. I think someone is playing games with the messages�. Cathy said, �yes. Yes. I think so. I need to go home. My friend Matthew will be waiting for me. I am supposed to meet him at the restaurant. I must leave now�. Feggy waved her hand and byebyed Cathy as she left the dinning hall and rushed to meet Matthew. Matthew is a wonderful guy and a computer genius. He is Sam�s teacher in the dumb and deaf school. But he can talk and hear with no trouble. Cathy likes Matthew. Cathy went home and took quick shower. She was thinking about Sam�s messages. Is Sam really alive? Where is he sending those messages from? Is he really sending such confusing messages like that? Can�t he contact his dad by any other means? Cathy parked her car and met Matthew at the Mexican restaurant as scheduled. She told him every thing about Sam and his messages. They ordered for some heavy tacos to take out. They both went to his apartment. Matthew offered her a drink. He opened Sam�s files with Sam�s password that Cathy gave him. There is lot of information in Sam�s files. If Sam�s watch is directly connected to detective Bermann�s office computer, his messages will directly go to him in plain text and he can also know Sam�s location on his special screen. Matthew knew about this arrangement. Sam and Matthew both developed this program earlier. Detective Bermann also knew about this program. Luckily he is in his office looking at some urgent files. Matthew hooked Sam�s files to Bermann�s message board. Bermann was greatly shocked to directly receive the messages from Sam. He quickly marked the location and locked it on his screen. Matthew and Cathy heard some noise as someone is trying to break into his apartment. Sam looked through the window and saw the ninja guys crawling up towards his apartment like spider men. He quickly unhooked the plug and pulled Cathy out and ran towards the elevator. Matthew said, �we should meet Detective Bermann. But I don�t know how to reach his office�. Cathy said, �it is next door to the local police station�. Matthew heard the word police station. They quickly came to the elevator and pressed both buttons. The elevator is not working or it is taking too much time to come to the fifth floor. They both took the steps and came to the fourth floor. From there they walked in a very normal manner. They came down to the ground floor. They walked towards their car and saw some other scar-faced and shaggy strangers waiting for the elevator. Matthew thought they are also ninja guys in mufti. Everybody seemed as suspects. Matthew quietly started the car. The bad guys were greatly disappointed, as they tried to open the files but did not have any password clue. They took hard disk and rabidly broke the computer with a great ninja rage and threw it down from the fifth floor. It fell down exactly in the garbage truck. Matthew moved the car quietly to the next turn. From there he drove the car almost on the air. Matthew and Cathy rushed towards the local police station to find out Bermann�s office. The highway patrol luckily noticed his speed and followed him. Matthew slowed down the car. The police officer asked him for the license and other credentials. Matthew showed nothing and the police officer asked him and Cathy to come to the police station with him in his van. He brought them to the police station and produced them before the chief. He left them there and went out to get some coffee as the chief is on the phone. Cathy saw Bermann working in his office through the window and showed him to Matthew. Bermann is still in his office maximizing Sam�s location in the world map on his computer screen. Matthew and Cathy rushed into his office and told him what happened from the beginning. They could not understand how the bad guys got the information so quickly. Bermann appreciated them and said, �you kids are amazing. You have done a wonderful job. We must immediately report this matter to Shea and Feggy. We must take a naval rescue aircraft to the Polynesian Islands and rescue Sam�. Then he called 911 and asked the operator to send a police to Matthew�s apartment along with the insurance agent and assess the damage. The police did what Bermann told them. Then Bermann called Feggy and told her the good news that Sam, Joan and their grandpa are alive. She could not believe what she was hearing on the phone.
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