The Mysterious Cabinet

It was a day in the middle of March with Kunal and Misha sitting in their room discussing about their new boarding school. Both were thirteen and had taken admission in Marolen's boarding school, Hogwarts. Like most teenagers, they were talking about their school and friends. They were actually upset at their Grandma's decision to send them in this school and they thought their school to be a boring one where all one did was study! study ! and study! They looked downcast as though all the fun was snatched away from their lives but neither Kunal nor Misha had the Idea that they had more than studies coming up at their new school. On May 1, they left for the school feeling gloomy. But soon school building came into view feeling wore of the mouth open in awe! It was a grand, reddish brown building came with a divine garden in front. It was an amazing playground for sports lined up specially designed racks. Their mother winked them at them and Bid them goodbye after leaving them at reception. A poor old man with pale and thin face and broken teeth show them the school . And let Kunal and Misha to the rooms on the third floor finally the children look forward to an amazing day ahead for next few weeks everything went smoothly but they have a huge pile of school work to be done. As if that was not enough to the great horror an accident happened one night was that of night the Kunal was not asleep he got up with a start hearing scratching in the corridor followed by girls wailing as soon as kunal's hands gripped the door knob, the noise stopped. Not bothering about the sound more he went back to sleep the next day news about a 12 year girl going missing spread among the children like a Wildfire but something really integrating happened the police soon ask the school manager to ask the entire school students and staff to assemble in the use activity for everyone did the same as told even it grudgingly. Minutes later the girl who had gone missing was found in a room completely unharmed but she had no memory at all of what had happened the police went away promising to get at the bottom of the matter. Recalling the same sound the night before Kunal told Misha about it. She said: why didn't you tell me earlier? have you told anyone else about it? Kunal replied grinning: "no not yet. It would have been great solving this case alone. Alas! It had got solved by itself." "Misha said: "you read my mind ".The very next day, however, a 12 year old boy went missing. This time there was a note: Leave This Place. Once again the police were called and once again the missing boy reappeared mysteriously in the same class room where the girl had been found a day before. He too had no memory of what had happened. For its reputation, the school beefed up its extra security. But the damage was already done. Worried parents thronged the office ready to take their children home. After days of clueless investigation. Misha waved a piece of paper at Kunal and told him what the paper was and how she had got hold of it ."I went to the headmaster 's office but he wasn't in. but I spotted a file on his table with two maps of the school property. Feeling that they might be helpful for us in our investigation. I got a copy of those pages in the file" .

The first map showed a cabin and farmland, while the second showed the school built on the very piece of land with the same tumble -down Cabin at its far end. Kunal recognised it at once ."The cabin belongs to the caretaker". Misha said: "But don't you see? The land was sold at a very cheap price seeing that it is a huge piece of land. Nobody in his right mind would sell it at that price and look at this." At the far end of the page, A note said property of Abdul Karif. Isn't the caretaker's name Abdul Kharif. Has he got something to do with him?Did you notice that when we were toll to assemble in the hall, he wasn't there question mark double inverted, closed asked "open but why would he do this?" Next day they met the caretaker as plant without raising his hackles, they made it look like a chance to encounter, Erm, Mr. kharif do you have an idea how long the cabin has been there?" asked Kunal "sometimes before the school was built"." Was it yours from the very beginning?" asked Kunal. Stammering Kharif said :"Oh y-yes. Before Karan could ask another question, other man said: "I have answer to question and that is enough. Now, stop irritating me" Karan left immediately. And after thinking for a few hours that evening, he said we will now take turns to check if anything seems wrong she agreed after completing her pile of work, she went to the bed massaging her wrists and slept. But she was woken up by a few hours later by the sound of soft footsteps She quietly got out of her bed, grabbed a pocket torch, opened the door and looked out. There were marks of some muddy footsteps in the corridor which looked fresh. And interestingly, they were leading to the staff cabinet. She followed them to the caretaker's cabinet. Then she opened the cabinet. The things were kept nicely there. Then Misha examined the contents hurriedly. When her hands reached the calendar, she felt something. She removed the calendar and found a doorknob. She gasped. She started knocking on the back of the cabinet. The wood was rather thin and sounded hollow on that side. She walked away and started on the other places also. The wall around the cabinet as though there was a room on the other side of it. A secret room, perhaps? She was about to inform Kunal when a hand clasped her mouth. She was then hit on the back of her head. And she lost her consciousness. When she came to, she was lying in the hospital bed with a bandage around her head and some teachers surrounding her. As soon she opened her eyes, they all started speaking at once. Remembering the night's incident, she called Kunal and told him everything to him in whispers. She told him to make a call to the police without telling anyone. He did as told. After sometime the police arrived. Ignoring the angry glares of teachers, Kunal told the police what Misha had told him. The caretaker got caught in the secret room. The caretaker said "I am Rayan Kharif and want to tell you the truth that my father Abdul khrif was a farmer and this land was his but a greedy Real estate agent due my father by making him sign the documents. My father was in such shock that he passed away. I wanted a revenge so I planned all this. The police arrested the agent, Kharif was also arrested because of the path he had taken