Chapter 47: A Deliberate Coincidence
"Yesterday was fine, but one night, the devil was stunned?, so what made you like this...... I'm afraid I can't get any more information, Mr. Bob, it's a pleasure to speak with you, goodbye, and hopefully your condition will improve with time. β
Put the 2 shillings in your pocket back in place, and if time permits, Donald might stay a little longer and try another way, but it's almost 5 o'clock now, and Miss Audrey's friends in town should be arriving.
For this friend whose mental state is unknown, the inquiry can only end here.
Leaving the door, he met Goren and the maid downstairs.
"Mr. Grant, don't you ask?"
"yes, Mr. Bob seems to be a little unwell, I don't want to irritate him, is this?"
The bamboo basket in the maid's hand was exactly the same as the one in the previous room.
"Fran Chazzo, she's Madame Bartlet's maid, she's been following Madame for years, she's come to bring chicken soup to Bob, that guy, I'm afraid she pretended to be sick just to see Miss Fran, what a bastard!"
The maid combed her ponytail, and there were a few strands of blonde hair hanging from her forehead, her eyebrows and eyes could not be said to be beautiful, but they were very attractive, and her skeleton was a little tall, especially her hips, which were quite fat.
No wonder Goren was so attentive, for those of them, such a figure was perfect.
Goren gestured to Donald with some embarrassment, of course he wanted to stay with Flandor for a while.
"Rest assured, although the farm is large, most of it is pasture and farmland, and the style of the main house is different from other houses. β
Adult beauty, walking down the stairs with Goren's grateful eyes, accidentally saw the earth dog just now, which was lying under the tree at this time, turning its head to look at Donald.
And didn't bark.
"Isn't it pretty good......"
Turning back to its master's house, Goren and the maid were not in the corridor.
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Audrey usually has a lot of friends in the town, and her naturally kind personality is indeed easy to gain friendship with others, but Sherlock is looking for more than just friends, he asks Bartlet to bring all the real friends from the town before Audrey's disappearance, and can talk about intimate topics.
Outside the house, Donald meets Sherlock, who returns with Old Hopper, who tells Old Hopper to leave first, and the two go to the wall to replace their shoes.
It was dark outside, and people could be seen holding torches to light the lampposts in the farm.
"Did you find anything?"
While it was time to change their shoes, the two exchanged information about what they had found, and Sherlock spoke first.
"The disappearance of cattle and sheep should be caused by wild beasts, and it is not an ordinary beast, the first disappearance was nearly two weeks ago, a newborn lamb, the most recent disappearance was two days ago, a three-month-old calf, Mr. Bob, who witnessed the monster, had a mental problem, and it was strange to hear Goren say that he was fine yesterday, in addition to that...... Zil Bartlet, who had previously seemed to be a capitalist, came to the countryside because he pursued his wife. β
It's an exchange of information, so Donald doesn't give some speculation of his own, it's a self-conscious judgment that can't be put in it, otherwise it would mislead Sherlock.
"Miss Audrey is supposed to have been kidnapped by an acquaintance. β
Sherlock said only one word.
"Huh?"
Is the progress so fast?
"The place where the paper was found was indeed on Miss Audrey's walkway, but I found it on a nearby lawn, and I asked Mr. Hopper for confirmation that it belonged to Miss Audrey, and that she liked to wear this kind of insect hairpin. β
A butterfly-style colorful hair ornament, made of metal, shows the craftsmanship of the craftsman.
"Where did you find it...... Why didn't the people from Ranffindor Farm find it before?"
A dozen people searched back and forth and couldn't find anything, Sherlock stayed there for maybe no more than 20 minutes, except for the time on the road, and found the headdress left by Audrey, is it a wonderful coincidence?
No, all accidents will have an inevitable factor in them.
Didn't the farm's employees, or Zil Bartlet himself, look for it more carefully than Sherlock?
Why can't they see it!
"Haha, you're a smart man, I knew you could see that there was never such a coincidence...... Coincidentally, I went that way, I walked up the lawn, and I picked up something that a dozen people couldn't find in a carpet search, for only one reason, and that someone, a guy who knew I was going there, put down this headdress in advance, and he wanted me to see this little butterfly, so why did he let me see this little butterfly?"
Sherlock changed his shoes, stomped on the ground from side to side, ignoring Donald, and walked straight into the house.
"Because he wants you to know the meaning of letting go of the butterfly itself?"
The person who puts down the headdress may want to tell them through the jewelry the fact that someone knows their actions and knows Audrey's course of action inside out.
On the premise that the other party knows the exact route, it will naturally be reminiscent of the person who kidnapped Audrey must be someone who is familiar with her.
In other words, it's very likely to be someone on the farm.
So why didn't the person who put down the headdress choose to come forward directly and say what he thought, but in this covert way.
What is he afraid of?
"It's better to have sneakers, if only I knew how to design shoes, I would definitely make a lot of money. β
After a round in his head, he finally returned to his shoes, and Donald said that he was a man with a boss, and he was an assistant who was responsible for asking for news and looking at the wind, so what to do.
Donald didn't care about what Sherlock didn't wait for, Donald was busy putting leather shoes on his feet, he didn't like this kind of hard-soled shoes very much, although wearing them had a certain height-increasing effect, but if he was allowed to choose between the eyes of others and his own comfort......
The latter is undoubtedly the case.
The sky darkened quickly, and the dark clouds seemed to be pressing down again.
There were quite a few people sitting in the drawing-room, except for the Bartlets, who had come in the afternoon, and the butler and the maid, five young girls, and when he entered, he happened to see Sherlock and one of them sitting on the wall of the drawing-room, beside which were two large windows open, and the wind blew in to hide their conversation.
The girls look at Sherlock, not because of his detective status, but because his face is indeed attractive.
A story between a beautiful girl and a handsome and mysterious detective uncle.
Attention, handsomeness comes first.
When Donald walked into the living room, the four girls looked back at him, resting on him.
To be honest, the current Donald is definitely a handsome, although he doesn't have the habit of gentlemen dressing up, he just can't stand up to being young, he has a good foundation, and the clock meditation method brings him a calm and peaceful temperament, and the lethality is also not small.
But he soon discovered that the girls' eyes were always going back and forth between him and Sherlock.
Beautiful young people and detective uncles, what they make up in their brains is estimated to be able to write a "literary masterpiece".
Come to think of it, the work has to go on, and there are two extra free chairs on the other side of the living room, which should be prepared for his inquiry.
"Does Mr. Grant live in Psychton? with Detective Swift? Are you friends?"
As soon as he sat down to introduce himself, Donald didn't ask, but the Miss Kyle in front of him couldn't help it, they didn't know about Audrey's disappearance, and the Bartlets invited them to a party in the name of a dinner party, and thought that Sherlock and Donald were both here to play.
"I ask, you answer, it's my working hours, and if Miss Kyle wants to know something personal, she'll have to come back to me later. β
Blinked lightly, the girl's head nodded quickly.
"How is your relationship with Miss Audrey?"
We have to start with the basics......
The two divided the work, the five girls, did not take much time, and the inquiry ended after an hour, and the five girls were invited to dinner with the Bartlets, while Donald and Sherlock, led by Miss Fran, went upstairs to Audrey's room, and their meal may have to be delayed.
The three-storey house has a large internal area, and the first floor is only used as a venue for parties, which is guaranteed to be spacious enough.
The layout of the second floor is roughly Japanese-shaped, with a staircase to the third floor in the middle, and most of the rooms on the second floor are private activity rooms, including the family's dining area, study, and small living room for entertaining close guests, which is where the Bartlet's family stays every day.
The third floor is where the Bartlet's family really rests, and it is the most private, even the servants are only allowed to go up privately.
The corridor is paved with a red carpet, and there are all kinds of portraits hanging next to it, there are not many rooms on the third floor, there are only 5 in total, one is the Bartlets, one belongs to Audrey, and the other three are specially prepared for relatives and good friends, such as Donald The two cannot live, they are arranged on the second floor.
"This is Miss Audrey's room, which has been forbidden to anyone but the Lord and Mrs. from the day she disappeared, and Lord Bartlet thinks it is necessary to protect the scene. β
In the end, he is a former capitalist, Bartlet, who has seen the world and has his own judgment.
"Wise behavior, it will help us a lot. β
Sherlock put on the white gloves and handed Donald a pair at the same time, on the one hand, to show respect for Miss Audrey, so as not to cause embarrassment when touching some private objects, and on the other hand, if the white gloves rubbed some strange things, it could create a contrast and make it easier to distinguish.
Open the door, turn on the light.
"The dΓ©cor and the antique-style furniture, it seems that Miss Audrey is a girl of quite a literary atmosphere, so I must ask you to leave the room for a while, it is not good for strange men and women to be here together. β
God knows what the classical style has to do with not being able to enter a room with men and women, the maid Fran Chazzo doesn't know, and Sherlock doesn't either.
He's just trying to find a reason to tear people apart.