The British government was speeding up the work of the railway line to strengthen Rajshahi's communication with Ishwardi. An English old man named Jonathan Hart was given all the responsibility for this work.
An accident happened a few days after the construction of the railway line began. A very important part was stolen from the warehouse. Naturally, all the responsibility fell on Daroyan Nipin Mandal. But poor Nipin is a very simple man. However, he has a bad habit of sleeping while guarding. So he could not deny the allegations.
January 21, 1936.
It is very cold outside. The iron and steel of the railway line seems to be adding to the cold. Nipin Mandal is looking outside with sleepy eyes. But I can't see anything because of the fog. It seems to him that he wrapped the sheet a little more and fell asleep in the chair. But that is not possible for fear of the old English. There is no land in the house, how will he eat when he leaves the job? False accusations have already shaken his job. Thus, thinking about various things, Nipin's eyes fell asleep.
It went on like this for a while. Nippin's lazy eyes were ready to fall asleep, just at that moment Nippin heard a sound from very close. He looked around with sleepy eyes. Everything that looks hazy outside in the light of the hurricane seems like a ghost to Nipin. But he has heard the footsteps of something alive. There is no wind, no chance to move anything. Nipin stared at the source of the sound. But from the opposite direction he heard a voice again, this time he sat up. Asked back. He saw that something like black had moved away, but he did not understand what it was. For a while he stared at it, at one point he could guess, in fact, that nothing existed in front of him, that something cold existed next to his ear. Turning around, he saw something in a black dress standing in front of him. In an instant, the hurricane was swept away. Nipin just saw that someone was holding his five fingers in front of his eyes. She can't even scream.
January 22, 1936.
Where everyone was busy with the theft case till yesterday evening, today everyone is busy with nipin nipin. None of his family members can smell any of his body. Station Master Rustam Bepari also saw Nipin sitting on a chair at 2 am. Then no one saw him.
After waiting all day, old Jonathan Hart came. As soon as he came, he started looking at Rustam again and again. But no one can be blamed for the murder as the body was not found. No one knows if Nipin is dead at all. In Jonathan Hart's expression, Rustam understood that if Nipin's body was found, the Englishman would hang him for murder. So either way, Nipin has to be found.
Meanwhile, before nightfall, the old Englishman set up a guard in and around the warehouse.
January 25, 1936.
At the end of three days, everyone stopped telling Nipin's story, because this time the story has taken a different turn. For the past two days, many villagers have seen someone walking down the street with a hurricane in his hand, just like a nipin. Nipin's society is saying that it is the dissatisfied soul of Nipin. Others are laughing during the day and closing the door very early at night.
There is no time to listen to Rustam's words. Today the police came to interrogate him. They suspect him. For that, Nipin has to get alive or dead anyway. If he is found alive, the old man can be taken with one hand and if he is found dead, the body has to be hidden.
2 o'clock at night
Someone is sobbing outside. The ghost girl is not crying. Serious throat or melody. Rustam's entire body hair is standing and expressing his fear. She could clearly hear someone crying. But I don't dare to see who is crying. Frightened, Rustam put his hand on the table to increase the light of the hurricane. Inadvertently, his hand fell on the lock key on the table. It broke the silence of the night and crashed to the ground with a rattling sound. Immediately the sound of crying outside stopped. The sound of someone going to the ground after incense was real. Rustam could not think what to do. After a while he decided to go out. Turning on the hurricane light, he came out. I could only see the fog outside. No one. Who was crying for so long thinking this? Nipin's soul! After a while, Rustam heard someone walking. Naturally he caught the hurricane towards the voice. In the dim light he saw someone dressed in a sheet. I remembered the words of the villagers later. Again he thought why he is not doing any harm to her? With this courage the chador-wearing lantern followed Dhari. When he came to the empty place outside and saw Seti, it seemed to be his nipin. Because both the sheet and the hurricane seemed to be his nipin. They have been together for five years. Rustam boldly called out, ‘Aye nipin’. But it did not look back. Moving forward at the same speed as before. Meanwhile, Rustam has come to the graveyard to follow this lantern bearer. But that is not stopping. This time Rustam got scared. I did not dare to enter the graveyard with it. I stood still and thought for a while what to do. Then began to return to the station.
After coming very close to the station, Rustam realized that someone had followed him. So he hid in a train carriage. Frightened to hear the sound of someone nearby, he entered the carriage. As soon as he came in, he stopped breathing. He lifted the hurricane and looked around to see Nipin's sheet. As soon as he stepped on something slippery, Rustam stepped on something soft. As soon as he went to see what was soft under his body, he saw that there were two red eyes with white face. And her hand is on his neck.
January 26, 1936.
The night passed and the morning came. Rustam subconsciously stayed in the carriage of that abandoned train. When Chetan Pel discovered himself on a dead body. Surprised to have survived such a blow to the head, he had no clue as to where the dead body of Robert William, Jonathan Hart's assistant, had come from. This house or why so tidy? I think someone used to live in it regularly. The old man suspects him of killing Ekito Nipin, and if anyone sees him next to such a dead body on top of him, he will be hanged for sure. So he got out of the bogie very carefully.
Who or what is talking to the police outside. As soon as Rustam came out, four or five policemen came and stood in front of him. So these are arranged dramas, they were chased at night to trap him so that somehow he could be brought here and given to the police as a visual proof. The old Englishman was with him, and as soon as he saw him, he got angry and said, "This is the bastard killer, arrest him." Rustam was caught as usual.
January 26, 1936.
After yesterday's police remand, Rustam told all the police what he did last night, that's why today Rustam became a hero and Satan the English old man is accused of murder. Because according to Rustam's description, the police were at the exact place from where Rustam heard the sound of crying in the middle of the night. Police found the ground loose. The body of Jonathan Hart's middle-aged wife was found on the ground floor after a hand went to dig the ground. The old lady's housemaid was questioned to further investigate the incident. He said that the two of them had not been married for several days. He does not understand English and cannot say what he was talking about. When asked about Robert, the girl said that she would often go out with Jonathan Hart's wife, Robert, if there was no master at home.
The police now found out who was Robert's main killer. Various signs inside the abandoned train carriage prove that Robert was married to an English old man. Jonathan could not accept it as a husband. So at first he interrupted his wife and killed her as he did not get any benefit from it and put her in the corner of Rustam's house, because very few people were coming and going behind the house. Police also found out about Nippin that the old man had helped Nippin to kill Robert and bury his wife. He was also used to guard the body. And the cry that Rustam heard that day was from Jonathan. He was mourning his wife's death when he was old and left alone. He also killed Nipin as he had a bad temper so that there was no evidence of it. But Nipin's body was with Robert. That was not found. Only hariken and sheets were found.
2 o'clock at night
Rustam has been acquitted. But the worry is about Nipin's body. There is no question of walking through the streets of Jonathan's village. Because his house is behind the station. So who walked that day with a sheet and a hurricane like Nipin? Some of the villagers also saw it. While thinking about various things, Rustam touched the floor of the room, then thinking that all the worries were gone, he was taking the part of the transmitter that was stolen and kept on the floor alone.
Rustam's thoughts were interrupted. Someone's footsteps can be heard outside. He could not think who would come out again after so many nights. In the absence of the guards, no one was stealing! Enthusiastically, Rustam went out and walked towards the warehouse. After going some distance, he stopped. Someone is sitting in Nipin's chair. Next to it, the light of the hurricane is burning brightly. Jonathan told police he had killed Nipin. But who is it? Rustam could not think. He started sweating this winter night too. That shadow is not answering any word. Rustam himself stood a hundred feet away from his house. Now he seems to be running to his house, but his legs are not moving, as if he had turned to stone. Somehow the body began to move forward with the help of immobile legs. After going some distance, he wanted to go back once. Then what he saw turned Rustam's whole body into stone. Now only the empty chair is behind. The shadow idol of Hariken is gone. Rustam's body did not seem to be busy, but his eyes began to look for the shadow. But that is nowhere.
Rustam stood in the pitch dark. His hurricane has also been extinguished due to lack of oil. And a few seconds ago he could feel the presence of someone behind him. Taking a cold breath is right on his neck.