Emma had no idea what was coming. She's busy with another thing.

Alvin called in the police to rescue Sophia and Alice from the kidnapping, but only two guards were captured, and the commander, known as the lieutenant colonel, escaped in time. Alvin felt that he should not tell a lady about these things, and when he recounted to Emma, he only said that a few scoundrels wanted to blackmail him with Sophia and Alice, and they had already been caught. However, Alwin knew in his heart that he had planned for a long time and had failed to achieve anything, and he had also damaged two lieutenant colonels under him, and he might retaliate. He sent a few soldiers to live next door to them and gave Sophia a gun.

After Alwin left, Emma thought about it for a moment and felt that something was wrong. Although Alwin is not a nobleman, the colonel of the army is also unprovoked to ordinary scoundrels, not to mention that the matter also involves the Kentras family, those who can only do power in the slums can have such a big courage? Emma was not at ease, so she asked people to go to the police station to inquire, and then they knew the truth of the matter.

Emma went to inquire about Alwin's arrangements again, and after listening to it, she felt weak. Strong combat effectiveness and thorough protection are completely different things, not to mention anything else, there was no indoor toilet in the hotel at that time, and the soldiers couldn't always follow up when they went to the toilet, right? The gun given to Sophia was even more chicken, there were technical requirements for this kind of thing, Sophia had not received systematic training at all, and she could hit a retired veteran with agility in two days? It was better to give her a dagger. Emma doesn't like to meddle in things, but if something happens to Sophia, Alwin will definitely blame himself for any accident. Emma couldn't take Sophia and Alice home, so she sent two maids to live with Sophia and Alice, and gave each of them a whistle so that they couldn't leave Sophia and Alice five steps away, and blew the whistle loudly if anything happened.

Emma's decision was wise. The lieutenant colonel took someone into the hotel in disguise and observed for two days when Sophia and Alice went to the toilet. Sophia was kicked away before she could aim the gun, and one of the two maids was knocked unconscious, and the other cleverly pretended to be stunned, and secretly took out the whistle and blew it vigorously. As soon as the whistle sounded, the soldiers not far away immediately ran, and the colonel asked his men to delay time, and he wanted to run away with Alice on his shoulders. Sophia pounced on him and grabbed him, and was stabbed several times from behind by one of the lieutenant colonel's men and fell to the ground. She bought a little time with her life, and in the end the lieutenant colonel was caught.

What to do when the lieutenant colonel is caught? Several soldiers tend to hand over the lieutenant colonel to the police, and Emma thinks this is inappropriate. As the uncrowned king of a region, the lieutenant colonel must have someone behind him who has diehards. None of this was a problem, the problem was that Emma wanted to get the Colonel to give up the idea of revenge without alarming George.

Emma thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a good solution.

The lieutenant colonel sat in a chair, his hands and feet chained. The light coming in through the window gradually shifted, dimmed, and finally disappeared.

"Squeak. The door suddenly opened, and a dark figure with what looked like a woman stood in the doorway.

The lieutenant colonel licked his chapped lips and teased, "Yo, come and give" He didn't finish his sentence, because the candlelight was lit, and he could see the woman's face clearly. The emerald eyes, the long blonde hair that glistened in the candlelight, was that of Elwin's unmarried Miss Markentra. When Sophia stopped the car, he hid in the crowd and saw Emma once, and he still remembers it vividly.

Emma placed the candlestick and a glass of water on the table. "You have accidentally obtained Miss Grace's relics, and you have found a maid and a little girl to frame an upright colonel in an attempt to extort him for money. Do you have anything else to say?"

Threatened by such a delicate flower raised in a greenhouse, the lieutenant colonel was not afraid at all, and felt a little funny. "Honorable Miss, this is not something you should be involved in. That's what your fiancé told you? Hahaha, you don't believe it, do you? He's three or four years old with that young lady's illegitimate daughter. The maid looks ugly now, and she was a beauty back then, maybe she has a leg with him. ”

Emma said softly, "What I said is the truth, and even if it is not now, it will become the truth sooner or later." I don't think you understand where you're now. We nobles have a lot of secrets, so naturally we have our own ways to keep secrets, so I'll show you today. ”

The lieutenant colonel chuckled in his heart. He had heard of a little bit of the nobles' selfish methods, even if he was hard-boned, he couldn't bear it. It's better to show weakness first, the noble lady is soft-hearted, and he can only be regarded as instigating, and he can come out of prison for a while, and it is not too late to take revenge when the time comes. "Dear Miss, I shouldn't have beaten your fiancé's idea, you let me go, I don't dare anymore. One of my brothers was seriously ill, and the medicine was too expensive, and I was confused."

Emma turned a deaf ear, and instead of having him taken out to be tortured, as the lieutenant colonel thought, she took out a piece of yellow paper, baked it on the fire, and read something softly in her mouth. The slightly flickering candlelight illuminated her face from bottom to top, making her look particularly pale and eerie. As Emma recited, dark and strange patterns gradually appeared on the paper, and finally merged into a strange pattern.

Cold sweat oozed from the lieutenant colonel's forehead, and the Adam's apple slid a little. "What's that? What's that?"

The yellow paper burned, and in the blink of an eye, it turned to ashes. Emma picked up the glass of water, sprinkled the ashes in it, and shook it gently. "Something that will shut you up. ”

"You can't, I won't say it, you don't need to, I really won't say it"

Emma was indifferent and clapped her hands twice, and a servant walked in.

The lieutenant colonel roared, "You dare! I have hundreds of people under me, and if something happens to me, they will immediately tell you about your fiancé's scandal." The servant forcefully removed the lieutenant colonel's chin and poured water into it.

Emma nodded in satisfaction and instructed the servant, "Take him away." ”

The servant bowed deeply. "Yes. ”

The lieutenant colonel was taken to a small, empty windowless room, where he spent a nightmare day. At first, he felt fine, but gradually he began to be irritable, talking to himself, and then yelling, struggling, tossing until he had no strength, he began to have visual and auditory hallucinations, and he couldn't say what was uncomfortable, and the whole person was in pain and sweating and shivering.

When Emma appeared in front of the lieutenant colonel, he thought it was his own hallucination, and he wished so much that Emma would show up to end his suffering, and he had already had such hallucinations more than once.

Emma was still calm. "Have you figured it out? Do you want to confess?"

The lieutenant colonel immediately shouted: "Yes, yes! I am guilty!"

"Good. Emma smiled. "Now that the power of the medicine has worked, you will live with this pain forever. ”

The lieutenant colonel looked desperate. "Please" After seeing Emma and hearing Emma's voice, he no longer broke out in a cold sweat, but the indescribable pain continued in the depths of his soul. If this pain continued, he would rather die.

Emma spread out her palm, and there was a small black pill lying in her palm. "This can put an end to your pain temporarily, and I'll give it to you once a month. I don't care if it's your order or not, if anything happens to us that doesn't work against us, this pill will stop being supplied. ”

"I'm not going to let that happen!" assured the lieutenant colonel, eager to the point of inarticulate.

"Good. Emma nodded approvingly and handed the pill to the servant. "Feed him. ”

The lieutenant colonel didn't wait for the servant to put the medicine into his mouth, he couldn't wait to raise his head and stick out his tongue to lick the medicine into his mouth, without water, chewed and swallowed, and said vaguely: "I will remember your kindness and generosity all my life, and I am your most loyal servant"

Emma used a lot of materials that she couldn't bear to look at when she was a fake pill, such as muddy hair and the like, and she felt sick to her stomach when she saw the lieutenant colonel eat so sweetly. "Eat it and rest for two days, and the pain will leave you for a while. ”

The lieutenant colonel was much better when he heard this, and tried to scrape out a little bit of poor literary literacy from his brain, and expressed his gratitude to Emma in words that were not the same.

The first step was successfully completed. Emma ticked a tick in her mind. After the lieutenant colonel confessed his guilt and went to prison, he asked the servant to bring a little money to the policeman there with Kenter's family crest, and for about a month he found an excuse to put the lieutenant colonel in a windowless private room for two hours, and as long as he recalled the memories of today, he would feel pain, and give him another pill when he came out. So that the lieutenant colonel will be convinced. Attacking the lieutenant colonel, Emma has no psychological burden. This out-and-out scoundrel has committed many crimes in the ghetto.

Solve the matter of the lieutenant colonel, and other things will be relatively easy to deal with. Sophia died to protect Alice, and Emma had her buried properly, after all, she was a loyal servant. Alice's adoptive parents are looking for a similar situation, a pastor couple has always wanted a daughter, and both of them are sons, and now the wife is not in good health and can no longer have children, so they want to adopt a well-behaved and cute little girl. Emma checked that there was no problem with the couple's character and their financial situation was okay.

The turmoil over the failure of the perpetual motion machine finally subsided, and the overworked George wanted to return to Yorkshire as soon as possible to rest. It was not yet the Lieutenant Colonel's January for medicine, and although there was a maid to take care of Alice, there might be some problems with leaving her alone in London, so Emma discussed with George a few more days under the pretext that she wanted to wait for Alvin to return.

Just when Emma was about to write to Alwyn to ask when he would return, Alvin returned to London and the first thing he did was to come to her.

Emma's heart sank when she saw Alvin's appearance. Alwin's uniform was a little dusty because of the long journey, and his eyes were bloodshot, which subtly coincided with the image of Emma when she first saw him. Like that time, Alvin bent down his normally straight waist again, but this time he wouldn't say "I'm sorry, I'll take good care of you in the future". Alvin was silent for a long time, and then whispered, "I'm sorry. ”

Emma sighed. She had been prepared for the day, and the long waiting period had eased her grief from the time she confessed to Alwyn for who she really was. "Would you like to say why?"

Alvin shook his head. "Sorry, I can't. I am sorry for you, and in my life, as long as you ask, I will definitely do it, even if it costs with my life. "Although the old Earl of Kentar may not have been out of care for the son of the deceased, but for the sake of obtaining a man who was desperate to make the old butler appear when he was at the end of his rope, though the old Earl of Kentar may have wanted to entrust Emma to him at that time, so he had to write back to Grace and make Grace die. But the old Earl of Kentra helped him anyway, brought in the best doctors for his mother, and finally buried his mother for him, without which he would not be where he is now. Emma doesn't know anything about it, and Alwyn can't tell her about her father's mistakes. But Grace died because of the old Earl of Kentera after all, and Alvin couldn't be with her no matter how much he loved Emma.

Something other than the situation must have happened. If Alvin felt guilty that Grace had died because of him, there was nothing that could not be said for that reason. Emma habitually analyzed, but soon stopped thinking. Alvin chose to directly propose the dissolution of the marriage contract, then the dissolution of the marriage contract is inevitable, and there is no point in thinking about it so much. "I have no objection. ”

Alwyn said tiredly, "Well, if you think it's okay, so be it." I'm going to find George. ”

"Wait. Emma called out to Alwin. "What do you want to say to George? You don't like me? You like to like another young lady? Do you want to adopt Alice? Or do you feel sorry for Miss Jones and can't be with me?" Alvin couldn't have said to George for no reason, for if that were the case, George would have proposed a duel, but George would have proposed a duel just as well.

Alvin was surprised and a little disappointing. "It's all my responsibility," he did wish to give George one last reason, for it was true that Miss Grace had suffered these misfortunes because of him, though it was not a reason for him to dissolve the marriage. He was sorry for Emma, even if George beat him up or proposed a duel, he admitted it.

"You don't have to be responsible alone. There are too many reasons to break the marriage peacefully. Emma walked up to Alwin and gave him a gentle hug. "I wish you happiness. ”