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The Mystery Of The Missing Mona Lisa

We were back. Back at the Louvre after six years and I still remember room number 6 in detail since I used to watch Dad’s video CD quiet often.

We were still all excited to meet the Lady. We ran, ran towards room number 6 and stopped. Both Karan and I were shocked to see that she was no longer there.

Missing! Stolen! Who? How? When? it must have happened just now.

My sixth sense told me that I should tell my Dad immediately. We ran back towards him. Heaving and panting before I could say any thing Dad said “Let’s go and see the LADY first”.

I realized that my Dad did not know yet that she was stolen. “Dad she is missing” both Karan and I said together softly.

Dad as usual, in his own world, was totally oblivious to what we said. He was looking at a map intently which an old gentleman had given him when we were going through William Hogarth’s, a 17th century English painter’s works.

My Dad replied “The map says room number 7, let’s go” We entered room number 7 and my Dad said “There she is”. I wondered where. I turned back to look at his gaze, all I could see was dad within the large frame of the canvas Wedding at Cana a huge painting rather the biggest painting at the Louvre behind my father. Dad pointed ahead of him and said “There” I turned another 180 degrees to follow his gaze. All I could see was a large crowed standing in silence. At a cue from a security guard Dad pushed Karan and me in front of the crowd.

There she was 5 feet away. Staring at us with her mysterious smile the one and only MONA LISA painted by Leonardo da Vinci a 15th century painter who had painted her on wood and not on canvas as most think.

We admired her for about 30 minutes after which Dad said to Mom, “That’s enough the next time when Karan and Arjun come she will surely recognize both of them”.

Both Karan and myself as we left heaved a sigh of relief, that we had managed to find the ‘BEAUTY’ before any one could miss her. Thus ended my case of “The Mystery Of The Missing Mona Lisa”.