Well,Mr Millar,Mr Jaffrey is expecting you.
Thanks a lot.
Pleasure.
May I come in,Mr Jaffrey ?
Oh my goodness !! Jackson !! How are you ? It's.....It's been a long time no see.How's everything?
All fine.Tell me about you.How are you now ? I heard you got a mild heartattack a few months ago.So how's that?
Kinda perfect. I've one leg had in the grave.So how could you expect all totally fine?
I'm so sorry,Mr Jaffrey.
Sorry ? I mean....Why?
For not coming for a visit in hospital knowing your serious condition. Actually I'm out of town and so I...
Oh my God.....Please don't be so formal. That's totally fine.I know you remain too busy with your own crowd.I never mind with such silly things.Okay?
Thank you,Mr Jaffrey. I pray God may grant an overlong life forward.
Thanks.But I don't think you're here for just wishing some healing quotes , right?
Well.....How could you be wrong. You're a mind reader. I think I need some informations only you can provide.
Only me?? Interesting. So lemme know what has made me such precious.
I found out that you're a top researcher on ancient books from all over the world.And also know the exact value of them.So....
So you're telling me to help you out ,right Jackson?
Yeah, you're right.
But you may know how confidential these matteres are.So...
It's for the sake of one of my case.And it's really important.
I can understand...But.....
Mr Jaffrey, you're my formerly known but I ain't begging your help for such former relations. There's something called law still exists in our country. So I hope you'll definitely show the law your earnest concern for its uplifting. I wish I've made you understand, Mr Jaffrey.
Well....It seems it's something extremely serious. I'll try then.Tell me exactly what you wanna know.
I don't understand. How I know about this means ?
That means you first tell me the relation of your case and the book ?
But,Mr Jaffrey, what are you asking is against my duty ? I can't brief my case to anyone. I hope you're enough intelligent to understand my position. Have you understood it,Mr Jaffrey?
Hmm. Sorry. Really sorry for being such a way.
That's alright. But may I know why have you been that way ?
The Concealed Stone.
The Concealed Stone ???
It's the toppest burning topic among the archaeologists all over the world.The Concealed Stone isn't a simple book we usually read , Jackson.
What ?
What was your favourite subject in school ?
What ? What's it bolt from the blue ?
Tell me what I'm asking.
Physics.
Great choice.
But why are you...
I don't think you like history ?
Not really , Mr Jaffrey.
I knew it , Jackson. Maybe you hate that subject, history that has come to your way now.
Sorry ?
So now be a good student of history. Okay ?
Student ? History ?
Yeah , Mr detective. It's a history.....Long history.....A story
of race,a crown,a sceptre.....
History ? Story?
So far....A downtown of Cape town, capital city of South Africa. That was like a fairy tale. That town seemed to be a dreamland. The similar town noise,kerfuffle are totally unknown to those people living there without the idea of being them in a lavres of stones...Stones deserve to be in thrones.
Siyabonga Dlamini.An arduous obliged farmer.A bourgeoisie village farmer. You know,God is a great programmer...The fastest game planner...
It's something like a fairy tale . Siyabonga Dlamini was the founder of the now reverend Dlamini family .
Siyabonga Dlamini oneday found a piece of something coruscating stone.Nowadays which we know as Diamond.
D....Diamond ?
Yes,Jackson. Diamond. One of the most expensive stone of this world. But unfortunately he hadn't the idea of that. But as I told you ; God is the fastest game planner.....He had then planned something more sole.
Siyabonga kept the stone with him and he had got attached to the stone but he didn't want it to be publicly revealed. So he started searching for places to hide his untitled stone.And he found it at last.
He cut his personal diary deepen deeper according to the size of the stone and hid it there.And he named it the concealed stone.
After his death, his only son Lethabo Dlamini,found out that diary and got to know what was that actually. From then small whispers started rising about diamond and its value.And you may know;Cape Town is known to be a long ago diamond mining town.
Siyabonga Dlamini was a page turner on this run.
Oh.....I see.So the Concealed Stone is a rare piece of diamond.Right?
Right you're.You're proving youself a brilliant student, Jackson.
Thanks a million.
Alright. So, the later part of the story;wanna know?
Definitely. Why not?
Okay.Why not going further with a cup of latte ?
Oh.sure.
So now with the coffee in hands,the later part will be more interesting,Jackson.
I'm agitating!!
Then Lethabo sold it to Mr Tristan Cullinan,the managing director of Cullinan mine in South Africa which was named after Mr Thomas Cullinan,the mine's chairman.
After that he got that much money with which he could be the king of the world.Then the miners claimed that Concealed Stone to be one of the pieces of Cullinan diamond that had been cut into nine major pieces and 96 brilliant cut diamonds.
You mean that Cullinan diamond...?
Not so far sure. Just a guessed history as others.
But what happened then ?
Lethabo established his own diamond businesses in Cape Town.The Warblood Stone.
The Warblood Stone...??
Don't you know ??
Yeah.I've heard about it.
Good then.
That means Bandile Dlamini was Lethabo's son ?
Absolutely. Probably he had a sister.
Sister ?
Yeah.Maybe Adha Dlamini.
Okay....So what happened to Adha Dlamini ? I mean this name hasn't popped up in any of my findings. That'll why I'm asking.
Well....To be frank, I don't know much of her.Just a few abouts. As likely as not,she had a romantic relationship with an employee and that was why her brother broke all relation with her and her new settled family.
Is that mean she had married to that....
Yeah. But sorry , I ain't sure of his name.But one thing, they moved to London after their marriage.
London ???
Isn't that interesting?
Sorta.Aaah.....Well.....Do you know anything more about her?I mean Adha.
Maybe not.The studies that is being on going is about the book,Concealed Stone.You may say the diary of Siyabonga. So not very much satisfactory studies have been made over her.
Okay.But anything about her children.....
Through my personal studies, it can be possible of having her a child.But girl or boy ; I don't know.
But I can't understand a thing.If the family had sold the diamond,then isn't it under the mine's possession?
That's a million dollar question, Jackson .We all are after that.Where's the Concealed Stone.The Concealed Stone had been theft after fifteen years of selling it.And the company tried hard to cover up the front page story.But that spread out .Since then everyone related to this stone trying to find out the theif along with the stone.But nobody succeed still now.But one thing for sure, the person possessing it right now ,can claim to be the emperor.
Okay.....So who runs the company now ?
The government has taken over the control and the other diamond miners are now controlling it together.
Well...So hadn't Bandile Dlamini had any child ? I mean I know a little about them.
Okay.Bandile Dlamini had two daughters. Lesedi Dlamini and other name is still unknown.
Unknown? Why ?
Actually she was too little and the family hadn't yet then revealed the second heiress name.So we're making hardships for knowing her name.
Okay.So if you know anything about their death...?
Not death....Murder. That was murder.
I know, Mr Jaffrey. And I wanna know what you know about that.
Well....What to say...As far as my guess can reach, all knew the murderer but even then they didn't.
Sorry?I can't....
That's also a riddle to me,Jackson.
Can you make me a little more clear?
Daniel Brown...
Daniel Brown?
Cheif managing director of Warblood Stone and a friend of Lethabo Dlamini.He was too supportive and loyal to the company and I must say he was too intelligent.
And his only son Addison Brown was also a friend of Bandile and in the same post as his father.I think somehow he got greedy and...
You mean.....?
That's totally my point of view nothing else.The local police and special branch found him at the crime scene but they'd to let him free on the basis of his proof of being innocent.
So what about the children?
I don't know.Even nobody knows.Just in the airs I got to know Lesedi,I mean the elder daughter of Bandile Dlamini had started a personal business of her own.But I know none of these in person.But I know almost nothing about the other child.
But why didn't they claim and took over the company after his father had passed away?
Hmm....Actually they were too little for those complicated matters.Maybe Lesedi was six or seven and the other was too little too.So,they just swept away.
Wha...What ?
Yeah, that's the truth. We,I mean all the archaeologists whoever are researching on the Concealed Stone, are almost fade up with this unanswered questions. And I ain't an exception for this.
Any guess ?
Good question. I guess the other child is still alive though many others think of her to be dead.I don't believe.
Why?Is there any particular reason for such a belief?
Literally not.Just my mind talks. I often listens to my mind,dear.And it can happen Lesedi escaped with her sister and knew the name of the murderer. And.....
And for you that was Addison Brown.
That's right.I've studied the case and I found no better option than Addison Brown.
I hope you know he is dead now.He had been murderer. So for now he is a victim.
Absolutely, Jackson. I know. And I also know you've the Brown case in hands and that's the reason you're here.Am I right, Jackson?
You're again too right. So then when you know everything, then tell me something to be helpful.
I've told you almost everything I know.So what now?
Lesedi.Lesedi Dlamini.
Lesedi Dlamini?
Yeah.Is she in London?
Are you joking with me,Jackson ? I ain't sure for her being alive and you're asking me that person's address whom I barely know alive or dead!Don't you think you've lost your sense?
I'm sorry for being straight. But I thought Lesedi Dlamini has contacted with you.So...
Listen, Jackson, I've no further relations with Lesedi or Dlamini family. And about Concealed Stone, I'm sure there's another big fish in the ocean.
Big fish??
This isn't a play ball of a kid or a marble,Jackson. It's diamond. Diamond. People's eyes start glossing with the site of it and more to be added it's money.....Money,Jackson. Money.
Well,do you know Melokhule Nkosi?
Melokhule Nkosi?
I mean any professional relation....?
Aaah.....Probably he is an african archaeologist,right?
Hmm....Any further information?Or bridge between him and Dlamini family?
I don't know clearly. I've not heard of him that much.Maybe he is studying this case too.I don't know that much of it.
Okay,then,Mr Jaffrey. I wish your earnest help every time. Don't take to mind if I need to disturb you further.
No problem. Any time.
I can't thank you enough. And take care of your health.
I'll.Jackson...take care of you too.Now you're a naked secret .
Naked secret??
Nothing. Take care.
NOTE : This sequence and storyline that have been shown to this novel, is fictional. And the main theme hasn't any realistic basics. But for the concern of the readers,the Cullinan Diamond Mine and the aforementioned Chairman Thomas Cullinan are real incidents carefully collected from trustworthy source.
Thank you.
Author.