‘Shut the door please.’ I shut it. ‘We can get changed through here. Another small door led off the strange room we were in and there was an imp...essive wooden door with a large brass door handle and a brass Knocker. It reminded me of a receptionists’ area of a university or posh school. I realized that it did look like the Head Mistresses office suite at my old school. The room Anne led me to was just a changing room, a few benches, a toilet and shower recess. A row of steel lockers with school. Drake,” she said in an upbeat voice, “anything special on the agenda for today!?!” Cord Drake took the coffee from her out stretched hand and replied, “Nothing on the horizon, Monica, but I am expecting a call from our man in Tokyo, so put it straight through when it comes in, okay!?!” “Certainly, Mr. Drake,” she replied, “and if there isn’t anything else, I have those letters from last evening to get out, so if you’ll excuse. "Few minutes later Suman and Mira came."Oh hello, we are honored to have you with us," both Suman and Mira said greeting us."Hello Mira. Hello Suman," I responded, "Please girls no formality. It embarrasses me." Hi girls," Ramu said.Cottage no. 20 consisted of a large sitting cum dining room flanked on either side by a set of two bedrooms with attached bathrooms. Kitchen and other utilities were situated at the back of the sitting cum dining room."Please sit down," Mira said."Tell me did ma'am. ’ THE BUG INFESTATION I had called the state CID detective who was working the case of the mysterious bricks, and asked him to get together with me at the abandoned mine where the bricks were made. Two days later I was standing beside Detective Dolan in a doorway of a big, barnlike building looking at the press that he said the bricks had been formed in. He put a finger to his lips, and waved his hands at the things he wanted me to see. Then he took me by the arm and walked with me twenty yards.