In every man's heart there is a void that can only be filled by one thing we love the most.To others it is the desire to rise to fame and be a popstar,while for some it is marrying the most beutiful woman in town and rest it is to find the woman who loves you the most.For the detective it looked like solving a case is one thing that his heart always craved for.The note he received was just but a part of the great puzzle he had to solve.The case had now presented to him in three fold,they was a dead prostitute,the blind witness and the Humming bird.Who was the Humming bird?."We cant conclude and say he is the killer.He did not say he killed the prostitute but he asked us a qeustion" spoke the detective pulling out his cigaratte."The killer is not giving us clues he is trying to confuse us, all we have to do is to let him play our game we keep him waiting"
The blind beggar was led to the qeustioning room.He had been quite since morning, but now he had to talk.The detective introduced himself to the blind man and asked "if you may sir tell us what happened the morning Elizabeth was gunned to death".The beggar cleared his throat and spoke " we were coming from a long night,she had just been dropped off by a client and i had spent the whole night playing my guitar at the Hills Inn.It happened that as i was living i met up with her.We shared the road home,on the way a man came along and asked Miss Elizabeth for a quick word.Later on i heard some gun shots and footsteps.I called Elizabeth and she didnt answer,i knew something wrong had happened.Thus, i called for help and the police because i couldn't do nothing as a blind man"."Did Elizabeth mention to you who her last client was"."Yes,she said it was Mr Henry"."Did she mention any peson who she had an misunderstanding with previously". "No" answered the beggar.
They two things that the detective was good at defining; a lie and the truth.That evening he did not sleep.He spent the whole night studying the letter from the humming bird,some pictures from the scene and the statement of the beggar.In the letter the Humming bird mentioned two things he could do,write,play and beg.These were similar to what the begger would do.The detective had requested that the beggar's house be searched for clues and among the findings were songs written by the beggar for Elizabeth.One of the songs read a part simillar to the letter sent by the Humming bird it read "what if i told you i cant sing no more, what if i told you i was blind would you love me still,my miss Elizabeth...."A number of question ran through the detective's head.Maybe the beggar was in love with the prostitute but she did not love him.This made him jealousy thus killing the prostitute.He later on wrote a note to use it as a decoy for him,pretends the Humming bird killed the prostitute.What could humm as a bird the good singer,thought the detective.The beggar says someone came and shot Miss Elizabeth but couldn't tell who it was.After a long day of thought and reasoning.the detective concluded "its either the beggar killed Miss Elizabeth and only one person could answer that".......to be continued
The last chapter of the story will be posted tommorow.please note that this is play written by Hawulethu Dube,due its length it has been edited to suit blog readership.Keep reading
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