Chapter 145: The Secret Courtyard
Although everything is normal in the Earl's Court on the surface, something incredible is happening inside. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć In the corner of the back garden, Louis asks for news of Grace from the maid, and the maid's words surprise her.
"What!! Grace is crazy!" Louis said incredulously, "how so?"
The maid's head shook like a rattle: "I don't know the specifics, I just know that the young lady went out to play that day, and something was wrong when she came back, and then she became more and more sick." The Earl did not want her embarrassment to be known to outsiders, so he locked her up. After that, two doctors came, and they treated her in the young lady's room all day, but there was no improvement. One morning I went to serve Miss, only to find that she and Miss Maddie were gone. I really don't know anything else! Please, give me back the key. ā
"And one last question," Louis snapped, "where did the body in the room come from?"
"Corpse?" asked the maid, "What corpse?" After a pause, her expression began to change, and fear crept up her cheeks, "That...... Is that a corpse......? I don't know!, the Count only said it was a puppet, and if I knew, how could I have eaten in front of it!" said the maid, who wept uncontrollably, and fell to her knees.
Louis sighed and handed her back the key: "If I were you, I wouldn't have leaked today's events. ā
Knowing what Louis meant, the maid nodded her head like a chicken, then held the key tightly and ran away. Louie was left alone, puzzled. I suddenly remembered the last time I saw Grace, it was really wrong at that time, and I only hated that I only thought about Lucia pretending to be a princess, and didn't pay much attention to Grace's changes, and now I really regret it. So far, I can only ask Maddy to find out the situation, but it is very difficult to pry Maddie's mouth open.
As night fell, the door of a house opened silently. Maddie crept out and looked around, there was no one on the whole road, not even the moon hiding in the clouds. Maddie walks alone on the silent street with her bag in one hand. It wasn't long before she arrived at the Earl's Court. Although it was already this time, for some reason, the door of the Earl's Court was opened, and she walked in quietly.
Entering the Earl's Palace, Maddie was even more familiar, and without a little delay, she went straight into the big house. Without going upstairs, or to the kitchen or the maid's room, she turned to the other side, and walked through the narrow corridor to the earl's study. The door of the study, which was supposed to be locked, opened as soon as she pushed it, and she flashed and disappeared in front of the study door.
Louie, who had followed her since he went out, also muttered when he chased after her, and the opportunity he had finally caught after waiting for several days was definitely not to be missed, but after Maddie entered the study, how to follow her so that she would not be discovered. While thinking, Louis stepped forward and leaned on the door to listen, and there was a dull metallic sound that lasted for more than ten seconds, and then there was no sound again.
Louis rolled his eyes, made up his mind, pushed the door and walked in. There is no light in the study, but the moonlight that has just emerged from the depths of the clouds illuminates the study, and the display is as neat and elegant as ever. Louis cautiously looked around and made sure there was no one else but himself. Where's Maddie? Louis thought to himself, how could she have disappeared in the blink of an eye, when she had just seen her come in.
Suddenly, she remembered the voice she had just heard, and made a bold guess. Quickly inspect the room, then stop in front of a row of sky-high bookshelves. Here, she could feel a breeze as she plucked a hair and placed it where the bookshelf was linked to the wall. The hair fluttered slightly, and although it was subtle, it did not escape Louis's eyes.
Sure enough, there is a secret way!
Louis frantically searched for information about the mechanism that opened the secret passage, and almost went through the entire room, and finally the effort paid off, and after turning the statue on the desk, the bookshelf opened outward like a door. Revealing a dark hole, Louis thought for a moment and stepped inside. The bookshelf slowly closed behind her, it was dark all around, and it was impossible to distinguish between up and down, left and right, Louis had to grope his way forward, but the passage was not wide, he could touch the roof of the shed with his hand, and the distance between the left and right could barely pass a person, so he walked forward, fortunately, there was no fork in the road, and he didn't have to worry about getting lost, but this passage was indeed a little too long, and he walked for more than an hour with Louie's foot.
Finally seeing the light in the distance, Louis knew his destination had arrived. It was a turnstile door, and she listened quietly, checking what was happening outside, and then pushed it open. Fortunately, everything was as she judged, and there was no one here. Beyond the secret passage is a normal room with only one door.
Cautiously push open the door, and there is a chic courtyard outside. At a cursory glance, the courtyard has three houses with a circular waterhole in the middle, and the houses are not connected. One of them was where Louis was. Facing the room on this side was ajar, and seven or eight valets came in and out, and on closer inspection, the crest on their uniforms belonged to the Count of Enopus. Louis leaned over a little to avoid being discovered by the other party. The remaining one was facing the door, and it seemed to be the largest of the three, and although the door was also closed, the light was on, and it seemed that there were people inside.
Louis hid in his room and waited for an opportunity, and after a while, when the manservants who had come in and out finished their work, and the courtyard was silent, Louis saw the opportunity to step out of the room and go straight to the lighted house. Although the door was closed, a small slit opened in the window on one side, and Louie squinted and peeked in, where there was a table on the opposite side of it, and Maddie was facing Louis but did not notice her whereabouts. And there were two people sitting side by side opposite Maddie, because it was Louie who couldn't be identified because of the back, but both of them were wearing pink lace dresses, which made Louie have a bad premonition for a moment.
"How's Miss's illness?" said Maddie.
"The treatment will definitely get better according to our method. ā
"It's going to get better, just follow our treatment. ā
Hearing this, Louis began to hesitate. If Grace was mad, then the Count's actions made sense, and it would be inappropriate for her to get involved in it. But then thinking of the corpse in Grace's room, Louie, who had a heavy face, fell into a deep entanglement, if this case was related to the count, as the captain of the Praetorian Guard, he should enforce the law impartially, even if it was not related, he had to try his best to prove his innocence!
Louis pondered as the conversation continued in the room.
"Although it was you who did quiet Miss in the first place," Maddie said anxiously, "but so far Miss doesn't seem to be getting any better. ā
"Don't question us. ā
"We'll heal her. ā
Maddie was still worried: "The Earl has done exactly what you said, and if the young lady still can't be cured, he will be very angry." ā
This threatening remark seemed to cause the two doctors to be dissatisfied, and they stood up in unison, walked up to Maddie, expressionless, and said in unison, "You can't trust us." ā
Although there was not much tone in the words, Louie saw Maddie shiver. At the same time, he couldn't help but shudder, because the actions of the two doctors allowed Louie to finally see their faces clearly, and also confirmed his thoughts.
It's a twin puppet!
Although Louis did not see the twin dolls at the Royal Theatre, it is not difficult to judge their identities from Lucia and Xuanyu's descriptions later. The pink dress, the exact same face, and such a repetitive way of speaking the whole Egrim are afraid that they will not find a second pair!
How could they get involved? If so, does it mean that the Golden Order has something to do with it? In an instant, a huge amount of information flowed through Louie's mind. There are all kinds of signs that if the twin demon puppets are there, they will never be their opponents, and once they are discovered, they may be difficult to get out!
Thinking so, Louie decided to return to Crescent Manor to move the rescuers, and when he turned around, he glanced at a corner of the room, where a figure flashed, could it be that there was a fourth person in the room? Just wanted to confirm, suddenly felt dizzy, she closed her eyes, and after a while, she returned to her original state, and then looked in the room, but there was only Maddie and the twin puppets.
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