The Mystery of The Indigo Valley

The Mystery of The Indigo Valley

Chapter-5

Series of disturbance

It was around four days after the incident, Mr. Lock purchased a fine slice in the northern estates and Oliver helped him to start the foundation work of the building. Everything thing was going smoothly when one morning the workers refused to work and called a day off, they said that the two and quarter inch pipe system of the LPG somehow broke last night and the whole building was in danger to set fire. But the matter of surprise was that this awful accident did not occur even when there were almost (MORE THAN 50) cigarette lighters lit together at the same time, some anticipated that the gas must not have covered a considerable area to set fire to a deadly explosion. The second absurdity of that incident was that the group of labors working at that place fell victim to some kind of nasty migraine and allergy. The work stopped for a week till the time workers healed, the building was complete in 8 months with an advance factory compartment and well made apartments for workers of the collectors association.

    In the first month of the production, the business bloomed and money came raining for all the people related to the association. Workers, maids, managers, collectors and the head management got many more than they expected to get. Mr. Lock and Windwood made quite fortune and earned respect of the whole community of the valley, new colonies were set and slums were replaced. “I myself respected the two gentlemen more than anyone, but for one that respect vanished in one night and the other… he..h..he was not left to be respected’ He added with some treble in his voice. “It was the day of celebration for us who worked there in the factory, the two gentlemen were going to reward the top 20 best workers of the year. I was the best so I was the last one as they gave the rewards in descending order with same process while distributing the prize money, as I was going to receive the reward a bullet came gushing through the window and killed Mr. Lock. “It was...was……ri...Right in front of me and he died. We had our days of extreme mourning and pain but it turned into agony and rage when Windwood took over the whole company without any authorization and gave the financiers contract to the Shread’s. Everyone except few of the workers were bothered by the death of their master because they were getting even more increments and bonus money every month. We, the people who were really loyal to Mr. Lock were troubled and disturbed by his death so we left the company and started our own small scale industries. From that day Windwood turned out to be the traitor who did not cared for his friend and gave the financiers contract which meant 22 percent of the profits to the most wicked business man. More over that was the contract over which Lock turned to his fists and received many for his friend…..