The Story of the Seventh World (36)

This is the end of the matter, everything that happened after entering the house is just a confession recorded by Henry's personal driver to the local police station, after which the private driver mysteriously disappeared, AndrΓ© had disappeared before the police arrived, Ralph investigated Andrei's son afterwards, but the same person disappeared, as if the world had evaporated.

The director of the St. Weiss Orphanage, the vice president died and disappeared, which became another big news in the town after the vice president trafficked orphans. After Henry's death, due to the lack of children to inherit, only the remaining property and small amount of money were sold by the local government department and handed over to the St. Weiss Orphanage.

The police investigated the case of Henry's shooting death for only a few days, and the suspected murderer was Andre, who had lost his trace, and after two consecutive weeks of fruitless searching, the case was closed due to lack of clues, and then the case file was thrown into the archives to eat dust. Similarly, for the disappearance of Vice President Andre, the police also took the same approach and hastily closed the case.

For those orphans who were trafficked by Andre, the local police directly gave no relevant information after the orphanage investigated, and the progress of the investigation could not be carried out and was postponed indefinitely.

Ralph's team tried their best to investigate the entrusted case, but I don't know who was secretly obstructing it, and the whole case was like a helpless person trapped in a swamp, and no matter what method was used, the news of the missing orphans and Andre's father and son could not be investigated.

At that time, Dean Charles asked Ralph to secretly search for the same orphan missing case in the United Kingdom in the past five years, and Ralph spent a lot of effort to investigate and record, and sure enough, things took a small turn, but it did not help the overall case.

A similar situation occurred at the same orphanage on the Isle of Wight on the northern shore of the English Channel, but the orphans were not illegally sold, but stolen, and the local police investigated for a month, but found nothing, and finally had to put the case on the shelf.

The investigation did not go very well, and they found that all the missing children were from orphanages, and most importantly, these orphans were from orphanages in small cities, and the local police were not very strong, etc., which were listed in the form of words, stored in a file bag and placed on Dean Charles's desk, of course, there were still a small number of black and white photos attached to the documents to support the relevant information.

Henry had a fatherly status in O'Hara's heart, and when he was about to work as an interpreter for Dean Charles's College, he sneaked out of the college that night and disappeared mysteriously ever since.

A week later, at lunchtime, Dean Charles received news from the college that O'Hara had been found in St. Weis, but this did not attract official attention, the main thing was that Andre and his son, who had been missing for many days, were found dead by hanging in the early morning, and the place of execution was in the center of the town.

The death of Andre and his son was discovered by an early morning cleaner, and on the surface it appeared that it had nothing to do with O'Hara, but during the autopsy, the police found that the name of O'Hara was engraved on the back of Andre and his son.

Due to the appearance of the name O'Hara, the police finally had a new clue, and it was inevitable to contact the personnel of the Royal Military College during the investigation, so the college informed Dean Charles of the news, which led to the secret investigation of Ralph later.

After being silent for a long time, the memories in his mind came back like waves, and Dean Charles picked up the telephone microphone on the table and said in a low voice: "Algernon?" Can you be sure it's a person? ”

"That's right, Algernon is the original O'Hara, and even if he changes his hairstyle now, his true identity can't be changed." Ralph said in a tone of great affirmation.

"If it's convenient for you, show up to me with all the news you know."

Dean Charles took the microphone and said in a normal tone.

"Okay, Dean Charles, you're going to get the news you want."

After hanging up the phone, Charles picked up the phone again, and after dialing a few times, the phone was connected, and a voice came from Charles that was so familiar that he couldn't be more familiar, "Hello, Mr. Charles!" Is there anything we can do for you? ”

The owner of this voice was the owner of a dress shop in London, which, unlike ordinary dress shops, only ordered dresses for the upper class, and did not accept civilians. Their level of service and craftsmanship was well-known throughout Britannia, and even the royal ones had to marvel at the gown, which seemed to be endowed with a Celtic mystique, which made him famous in high society.

Armstrong, the owner of the dress shop, no one knew that his high-end clothing store was invested by Dean Charles, and even those in high society only knew that Charles had bought dresses many times, and did not know that the largest shareholder of the store was Dean Charles.

This high-end clothing store is ostensibly a well-known luxury store in London and even in the United Kingdom, but this store, including his branches in various places, secretly scouts for Charles the latest news from all walks of life, feeds back to Charles's independent intelligence room, and after screening, informs Dean Charles of the most useful information.

While collecting information at the upper level, Armstrong also did not forget to collect all kinds of strange and recent news at the bottom. Armstrong opened a small bar not far across the street from his clothing store, which, unlike other bars, was only open at midnight, so that he could make some extra money without compromising his main business.

Of course, the operation of the bar is not as smooth as the clothing store, after all, Armstrong has no experience, and in the end, Dean Charles arranged for two veterans to receive it, because the people who split the bar at midnight are different, and there is naturally a lot of drinking and trouble, Armstrong can't control the scene, so he has to be sent by Dean Charles to help him.

"There are suspected members of the Divine Light Church in London, it seems that they are still a big fish, you need to investigate, even if you find out, it doesn't matter, just know their approximate range of activities."

Dean Charles's indifferent tone came from the other side of the microphone.

"It's not good news that the cult is in London, I'll keep an eye on it." When Armstrong heard the news, his face changed, and he asked in a slightly solemn tone: "Did they come to London to plan some terrorist activities?" ”

"I haven't heard anything about this at the moment, and I hope that their group of ground rats in the well will be honest and not cause me trouble." Dean Charles said.

Armstrong didn't say anything, hung up the phone, and then dialed again, and a thick voice came out after the phone was connected: "Hello, sir! This is a Sri Lankan pub, what is it needed? ”

Sri Lankan pub was not originally called that, but Midnight Drunk, a very common bar name. Armstrong started out with just a normal bar to make money and collect anecdotes about the gossip of the people in the bar.

There's an old saying that "the sky doesn't just follow your wishes", and it was very appropriate for what happened to Armstrong, and within three days of the bar's opening, two brawls in a row caused damage to 300 pounds of tables and chairs, and 100 pounds of alcohol was affected and broken, which was a financial loss. A middle-aged Irish man was cut down for a day to clean up after a broken glass shard of a wine bottle on the ground during a fight caused blood to flow profusely from the ground.

For this reason, Armstrong was so angry that he almost closed the bar, he really couldn't imagine how much money he would lose if the bar was open, looking at those loss reports, his heart was dripping blood! Fortunately, Dean Charles was more concerned about himself, and investigated that it was the bar on the street that was secretly sabotaging in order to make his bar unable to operate.

For this kind of thing, Dean Charles has never liked to delay his own time, and directly let his butler Scott solve it. After investigating, the butler found out that it was just a bar that had been open for less than two years, and that it was backed by a gang from the City of London, but the gang seemed to be fighting for turf with others recently.

The housekeeper was very decisive to find someone to set fire, and the person he was looking for happened to be the little brother of the gang's opponent, and the little brother disappeared after being exposed, and everyone thought that he had taken the advantage and ran away.

There are many bars in the UK, especially in London, and there are often conflicts with each other, often the newly opened bars are squeezed out by the old bars on the same street within a few days, but even so, the Britons who open bars are still in an endless stream, and the long-standing pub culture has been deeply rooted in British life.

For British people, pubs are the best place to socialize, and the place where information exchange explodes, just like Chinese restaurants and pubs are the best place to listen to news.

Dean Charles didn't have any intention of making money for this bar, but more to help Armstrong.

Two generations of the family have run a dress shop, Armstrong's father turned out to be a family tailor for Dean Charles's father, and the family has been a full-time tailor for several generations of the Roberts family. Later, after the death of Dean Charles's father, the family had a period of financial constraints, and most of the servants were dismissed, Armstrong's father did not leave, and worked for ten years without taking a penny, and then left voluntarily as his health deteriorated.

Armstrong and his son used the money saved by their ancestors to open a clothing store in London, and the business did not start well until two years before Armstrong's father's death, when several French people arrived, ordered their clothes and were praised at the banquet, and the business continued to arrive.

After the fame spread, it didn't take long for it to attract the attention of Dean Charles, but it didn't disturb their lives, but secretly ordered their dresses and helped them to make their lives better.

However, perhaps it is in response to the old Chinese saying "People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong". It is precisely because of the boom of the clothing store that some people are jealous, and there have been many harassments and vandalism of Armstrong's clothing store, for which the Metropolitan Police has come to investigate many times, but in the end the investigation has failed due to some unknown factors, and the case is still unsolved.

For Armstrong, Dean Charles didn't want to disturb their lives, but he didn't expect to be forced to intervene in the end.

Two days after the clothing store was harassed, a middle-aged man came to the clothing store with a civilized staff and asked Armstrong to sign an agreement, which roughly meant that Armstrong clothing stores would voluntarily become a subsidiary of Fraser, and Armstrong would join in the form of shares.

The middle-aged man was kicked out by Armstrong and scolded the neurotic, saying that only an idiot would agree to join that damn Fraser company.

That night, the door of Armstrong's clothing store was smashed, about 200 pounds were lost in the store, and the damaged store items were worth 400 pounds, this loss made Armstrong almost hospitalized, and the Metropolitan Police Department also opened a case against it, and investigated the suspected Fraser company, but there was no evidence, so the investigation could only be diverted.

The Armstrong clothing store vandalism case was like the previous ones, and after a number of fruitless investigations, the police slowed down and shelved because other cases had to be dealt with.

Dean Charles was busy with the affairs of the Military Academy and did not know what happened to Armstrong, but that did not mean that no one paid attention to this matter.

Steward Scottrade is a very attentive man, and he is extremely good in every aspect, not only in the management of the estate, but also in the fact that Dean Charles can clearly remember the people or things that concern him, and remind him when appropriate.

This was the case with Armstrong, and Steward Scott remembered the people who had lived at Roberts Manor, not to mention Armstrong's father, who made the garment.

Human memories are like this, for people who have appeared around or in their lives many times, the memories will be extremely profound, and Butler Scott not only has unforgettable memories of Armstrong's father, but also Armstrong himself.

Armstrong was naturally active and could often bring joy to the people around him, bringing a touch of fireworks to the already impersonal and solemn manor. Both the master and the servants on the manor were hardly bored with Armstrong, who was naturally lovely and brought laughter.

Armstrong made a deep impression on everyone on the estate, and even after he left with his father, the old people on the estate would talk about him regularly.

When Dean Charles mentioned Armstrong again, Steward Scott's mind seemed to open a door to time and space, and the scenes of the past seemed to be right in front of him, and he was still the one who could bring joy to everyone. After the housekeeper's memories were evoked, he arranged for someone to secretly observe the current situation of the Armstrong family, of course, not staring at it all the time, but sending people to see it every once in a while.