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"Can you tell us about the man's physical features, Mr. Schiller?" asked Rogge, shrugging his eyebrows and looking back at Schiller as he smoked his pipe.

Schiller rubbed his smooth chin with his hand and recalled: "I remember him wearing a heavy brown cloak, covering his face, being very tall, wearing a pair of brown leather shoes, and gloves on his hands, and looking mysterious." ”

"I see, thank you, Mr. Schiller. Rogge got up from the couch and said to Paul and the others, "I think we can get out of here, Mr. Sheriff, it's getting late, let's go back to Fort Khan." ”

He walked straight out of the house, and Antonio followed him with two girls and asked, "Why don't you let the sheriff take Schiller back to the law enforcement court for interrogation?" ”

"What do you think?" asked Catherine with his pipe in his mouth, and the girl was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, and said, "I don't think he's a kidnapper, right?"

"Why?" Antonio and Tali looked at her and Rogge curiously, "Did you find any evidence?"

"No, I'm just guessing," replied Catherine, looking cautiously at Rogge, "for Mr. Rogge told me that the boy who had come to deliver the pigeons had told him that the suspect was a very tall man, as Mr. Schiller had just said, and that his own height was evidently not in accordance with it." ”

But perhaps, this is just what he taught the little children to say, and he himself will naturally say the same thing. Antonio was not convinced.

"This ...... It is also possible," Catherine was told by him, and her heart became more and more bottomless, and she hesitated for a moment and then said: "But if it is him, as a person who keeps pigeons all year round in the family, he should know that the sheriff may track him down through pigeons, and if he finds out about his house, will he not betray himself?"

"But I think his rhetoric is more like a premeditated excuse to cover up his actions," said Antonio, frowning at the silent Rogge, "Don't you think it's strange? Who would spend so much money on twenty pigeons just to extort a few silver coins?"

"What do you think?" Tully saw that Catherine and Antonio couldn't come up with a result, so she threw the question to Rogge, who smiled slightly and said to the three of them, "You're all right, and that's the crux of the matter, the kidnapper did all kinds of strange things, and we couldn't find his motive for doing it." ”

He glanced back at Schiller, who was walking behind with Sheriff Paul, and whispered to the three of them: "If we can't find a motive, we can't explain what is happening now, and we don't know the purpose of the kidnapper, so we can't deduce his identity." ”

"So, there is no point in arresting Schiller back now, whether he is a kidnapper or not, he will not admit that he did it, and we have no evidence against him, and eventually he will be released, and we are just startling the snake, if he is really a kidnapper, we will definitely be vigilant, and it will be even more difficult for us to catch his fox tail. ”

"I understand, you want to go back and secretly investigate Schiller, find evidence, and then bring him to justice. Antonio said with a slight smile in realization.

"Almost, at least we have to get to know him and see if he has a motive and a possibility. Rogge tightened the knot at the collar of his black cloak and said to Catherine beside him: "However, what Catherine said is not unreasonable, Schiller may just be a scapegoat used by the kidnappers to confuse us, in short, it is too early to draw conclusions." ”

The group rode back to Khanburg on the horses of Antonio and the others, and Rogge and Antonio rode back to Klose's house with Catherine and Tali, who had been waiting anxiously for them, and immediately got up to inquire about their investigation when she saw them.

Rogge told her what had happened, and when she heard that the kidnappers had not been caught, Mrs. Klose sighed worriedly, and Catherine and Tali hurriedly stepped forward to help her sit down, reassuring her that there was already a suspect, and then an investigation would be conducted, believing that Mr. Klose would be rescued soon.

Then Rogge left Klose's house with Lilith, and it was not until after breakfast the next morning that he returned tired, and Catherine hurriedly asked him if there was any progress, and Rogge sat down at the table and shrugged his shoulders and said, "There is no progress, and that Schiller is innocent if he is not too deeply hidden." ”

"How so?" Catherine sighed in disappointment, got up and fetched a glass of milk for Rogge, who thanked her and said, "I went to a few taverns in Khanburg last night to inquire about Schiller, and many people in the taverns knew about him. ”

He took a sip of milk and continued: "Schiller had no dealings with Klose, he was not even a man of business, his father was the chief musician of the Marquis of Khanburg and the orchestra conductor of the Cabaret, and he was deeply appreciated by the Marquis, and Schiller himself inherited his father's position, and he was also famous in Khanburg. ”

"Lately he had been busy preparing a concert for the birthday of the Marquis of Khan at the Song and Dance Theatre in Khanburg, and it was from the theatre that Paul had called him away yesterday when he had been sent to him, and according to the idlers in the tavern, Schiller went to the theatre every day before dawn and did not return home until dark. ”

"It seems like a perfect alibi. Catherine put her hand on her cheek and frowned, "There must be a lot of people waiting in the theater for his dispatch, so that he would not be able to go out into the streets and hire children to deliver pigeons." ”

"But he can send his henchmen. Rogge drank the rest of the milk from the cup and put it down to remind.

"That's right," Catherine nodded thoughtfully, but sighed annoyedly, "but in this case, there is still no way to prove whether Schiller is suspicious or not!"

"That's right, so it's tricky right now," Rog got up from his chair and said, "I'll go upstairs and rest for a while, think about what to do next, and then I'll talk." ”

At this moment the maid of the Klose family came in from outside, and Catherine accompanied her to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for everyone, and the two of them were busy with their work while talking about Mr. Klose's case.

As he spoke, Rog suddenly ran down the stairs in three steps and two steps, came to the kitchen door and asked the maid, "Yulia, do you have a toolbox at home?"

"Yes, do you need me to get it?" asked the maid, putting down what she was doing, looking back at Rogge.

"Tell me where it is, I'll find it myself. Rog waved his hand at her, and the maid told him where the toolbox was, and Rogge turned and hurried away, and Catherine curiously followed him to the back of the stairs, and saw him open the toolbox, rummaging through it for a moment, and taking out a wire from it.

"That's right!" Rogge stared at the wire for a moment, a confident smile on the corner of his mouth, and Catherine curiously walked up to him and asked, "What, did you find anything?"

"Shh," Rogge turned around and waved his hand at her, "Don't mention it to anyone, it's not the time to say anything yet, I still have some things to confirm, and I'll talk about it when I come back." ”

He put the toolbox back in its place, turned and hurried out of the house, Catherine looked at his back suspiciously, turned back and opened the toolbox, stared at the wire he had seen for a long time, and did not see any doorway on it.

Rogge did not return until three o'clock in the afternoon, and as soon as he entered the door, Catherine told him that the kidnappers had sent for the pigeons again, and that they were still the same time, but that the release position had changed again.

Rogge read the note that had come with the pigeon, smiled slightly and said to the sad Madame Klose, "Don't worry, ma'am, you will release the pigeons according to the instructions above, and Catherine and I will do the rest." ”

He asked Antonio and Tali to accompany Madame Klose to the release site with Sheriff Paul, and when the crowd had left, he said to Catherine, "Come with me, we should go down to business." ”

He took Catherine around the back of the room, let the little furball shrink them, and flew them through the window into Mr. Klose's study, where Catherine saw a large number of books, mostly related to gems, on the bookcases around the walls.

Rogge walked over to the bookcase and looked at the books on the cabinet, and said to Catherine, "It's good to read more books, and apparently old Klose knows that, too, and that's why there are so many books here." ”

"But what does this have to do with the case we are now pursuing?" asked Catherine, suspicious.

"It doesn't matter," Rogge raised his eyebrows at her, Catherine looked at him in surprise, and heard him laugh and say, "It's just that we don't know where to find the robbers anyway, so we might as well find a book to read, maybe when you see a certain paragraph, the robbers suddenly jump out of the book"

After saying that, he lowered his head and continued to rummage through the bookshelf, Catherine walked to the bookcase at a loss, looked at the neatly arranged books in a daze, thinking about the situation of the case, and didn't know what Rogge was planning, and several times he wanted to ask but felt that he couldn't ask anything, so he had to go forward and rummage through the books in the bookshelf.

Suddenly, Rogge turned his head and pointed his ear at the door of the hallway, and Catherine, who was standing not far from him, also turned around, and heard the sound of soft footsteps in the hallway, and she was about to speak, but Rog decisively raised his hand to stop her.

The footsteps circled down the hallway, then faded away, and a moment later the footsteps returned to the doorway, and after a faint metal crash, something seemed to touch the iron lock outside the door, and the sound of a rope echoed outside the door for a moment.

There was a "click", the sound of the door lock popping open, followed by the sound of the iron lock being removed, the door was slowly pushed open from the outside, and a tall and thin man in a brown cloak appeared in the doorway.

The visitor cautiously looked around the room, and saw that the study was empty, so he crept in, and began to search around the room, and when he came to the back of the desk and opened a drawer, he could not help but let out a cry of surprise.

He took out a gold silk money bag from the drawer and put it on the table, sat down at the table, opened the bag and looked down, and at this moment, the door of the study suddenly "creaked" shut.

The man was startled, and when he looked up sharply, he saw Rogge and Catherine standing at the door of the study staring at him, and Rogge smiled and waved at him and said, "Hey, hello, nice to meet you, Mr. kidnapper." ”