"You...... Who are you?" The masked man sitting behind the desk jumped up from his chair and took out a sharp dagger from under the cloak that wrapped his body and pointed it at Rog and Catherine, who decisively pulled out the silver gun and aimed it at him, but Rogge pressed the gun down with his hand. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Hey, don't be nervous man, there's something to say. Rogge waved his hand at the masked man and said, "I think you have spent a lot of money on such a great effort, just for the lost ruby of Miss Helen, the daughter of the Marquis of Khanburg, in the bag, right?"

Hearing Rogge's words, the masked man subconsciously clenched the money bag in his hand, looked at him with a vigilant gaze, and only heard Rogge smile: "A month ago, Miss Helen, the daughter of the Marquis of Khanburg, lost a ruby necklace at a banquet, and the case has not been solved until now. ”

He lowered his head and unhurriedly lit his pipe and said to the masked man: "After the incident, the Khan Fort City Law Enforcement Agency ordered the Khan Fort to be sealed for three weeks and conducted a city-wide search, but there was no result, and the Law Enforcement Agency finally had to lift the blockade, so the necklace and the thief disappeared from then on. ”

"What are you talking nonsense?" The masked man nervously held the dagger in his hand, and only showed a pair of eyes staring at Rogge and Catherine behind him, "I didn't steal any ruby necklaces, I just came in to steal some money to settle dinner, I don't want anything, you let me go!"

"To steal money for dinner?" Rogge smiled and took a puff of his cigarette, dragged a chair and sat down with his back to the door, and said, "I am afraid that there is no shortage of money for dinner, fifty copper coins a piece of paper, two silver coins a pigeon, you have spent more than forty silver coins in a week's time, which is enough money for many poor people to eat for a few months." ”

"You ......" The masked man retreated to the wall in horror, his hand holding the dagger trembling, and he shouted to himself, "I don't know what you're talking about, get out of the way!"

"Don't worry, we've just met," Rogge said as he shook his finger at him with his pipe in his mouth, "I've been thinking about a question for the last few days, a kidnapper kidnapped a man and spent a lot of money to extort a pitiful ransom for a small amount, what is this for?"

He looked back at Catherine standing behind him, and the girl saw that he was deliberately asking herself, and after a little thought, she replied, "Maybe he wants a greater good than the ransom!"

"That's right," said Rogge, smiling appreciatively, "and secondly, why did he use pigeons to deliver the ransom and release them every time in the place he specified?"

"This ......" Catherine hesitated for a moment, and heard Rogge laugh, "To answer this question, you have to check the location he specified, I went to the Law Enforcement Institute to check the map of Fort Khan, and found that all the locations are centered around this - that is, Klose's house, and each time it is farther away from Klose's house than before." ”

"I see!" Catherine exclaimed, "He's using a ransom to lure Madame Klose away, and then he can run in and steal it!"

"Clever kid, it's seamless, isn't it?" Rogge glanced at the masked man with a smile, and saw that the other party's hand holding the dagger trembled even more, and his two eyes kept glancing around, as if looking for an escape opportunity.

"But that's not all," Rogge continued quietly, "Klose has only a couple and a maid in the house, Klose was kidnapped, his wife went to release the pigeons, the maid is still at home, and the kidnappers still can't come in at will, so he set a time again." ”

"Yes, Yulia left home at five o'clock, no wonder he had to set the time for the release of the pigeons at half past five!" said Catherine.

"That's right," Rogge said with a smile as he looked at the masked man's feet, "Klose's house has a branch of a large tree attached to a wall on the side, and tall people can climb the wall and get close to the window on the second floor through the branch, so you can sneak into the room without having to pry the door." ”

The masked man clenched the money bag in panic and shouted to Rogge: "Don't say it, you can ask for as much as you want, let me go!"

"We'll talk to you about the price, but not now," Rogge said leisurely, puffing on his smoke, "Don't worry, sir, I'm teaching my students, it's almost over." ”

He pointed to the cloth wrapped shoes on the man's feet and asked Catherine, "See? What can you see by wrapping clean cloth around his feet to prevent shoe prints, wearing gloves on his hands to prevent fingerprints, and cloaks and masking cloths to prevent others from seeing his true face?"

"He is very good at concealing himself and has a strong anti-detection ability. Catherine said, looking the man up and down.

"Yes, combined with what we said earlier, this gentleman is actually very rich, which means that he is not one of those habitual thieves who wander around playing cat and mouse games with the sheriff, then there is only one possibility, he is a member of the law enforcement agency himself, and maybe a sheriff at all. Rogge said to the masked man with a sly smile.

The masked man's whole body trembled, looked at Rogge with frightened eyes, and shouted in a voice that was close to a nervous breakdown: "Don't say it anymore, don't say it anymore, it's enough, it's enough, what do you want, say it, I'll give you whatever you want, don't say it again!"

"Don't worry, sir, I haven't gotten to the point yet," Rogge smiled and pointed to the lock on the table where the masked man had placed him, "You made everything seamless, but you must not have imagined that it was this lock that made you look like it." ”

The masked man nervously glanced at the lock, and heard Rogge say, "I was still full of doubts about this case this morning before I went upstairs to rest, until I saw this lock when I passed by this study. ”

He whistled, and little Lolit Lilith peeked out of the door, and she jumped up to the table to take the lock, and turned to Rogge's hand, and Rogge played with the lock and said to Catherine, "I remember the night we first came to Klose's house, and I noticed it too." ”

"At that time, I distinctly remember that the lock was covered with dust, because his master had been kidnapped for a week, and it was evident that the maid Yulia had not come to wipe the lock, so it remained dusty until this morning, when I passed by the door, and I found that the dust had been wiped off it. ”

He shook the lock at the masked man and said, "I checked the lock and found a thin metal scratch on the keyhole, and I immediately found the toolbox at Klose's house, and found a thin piece of wire cut inside, and the cut was still fresh. ”

He threw the lock to Lilith, looked up at the masked man, and said, "It can be inferred from this that you didn't have a lock-picking tool to enter the house because you didn't have to pick the lock, and this is one of the evidence that you are not a habitual thief." ”

"You entered Klose's house four times and didn't steal anything, which means that you came here to look for a particular object, and I think you've probably searched the whole house and left only this room, and this time, you did find it. ”

Speaking of this, Rogge took off the pipe from the corner of his mouth, and said as he extinguished the pipe: "You know the Klose family very well, and even know the maid Yulia's schedule, so you and Klose must know each other, and it is very likely that they are his peers." ”

"You're right!" Seeing that everything was explained, the masked man calmed down, he nodded lightly and said: "I confess, I have been jealous since I learned that Klose got this precious ruby, I thought about reporting him, and I was unwilling to be able to get such a treasure, so I thought of this plan to take the ruby for myself." ”

"You mean, Klose is the one who took the dirt from the thieves?" Rogge laughed when he heard this, and the masked man looked at him in amazement, only to see him shake his head and smile: "Don't make a fuss, if that's the case, you can completely cover Klose's face and interrogate him, and force him to tell him the whereabouts of the gem, instead of painstakingly searching for a week and not finding it!"

"I ......" The masked man looked at Rogge speechlessly, and Rogge smiled mockingly: "You are the gem merchant who bought the stolen goods, there must be some kind of misfortune between you and Klose, maybe when you were paying for the goods, you accidentally took the wrong money bag and handed the bag containing the gems to Klose." ”

"By the time you found out all this, it was too late, you couldn't just tell Klose that there was stolen goods from Mademoiselle Marquise in the bag, that could have taken you to court, so you used this tactic, you may have pressed Klose, but he probably didn't know that the gem was in his hands, so you didn't ask for the result. ”

At this point, Rog leaned back in his chair, crossed his legs and looked at the masked man, and said, "Do you have anything else to justify? If not, take off your cloak and mask, and let us see your true face." ”

The masked man hesitated for a moment, slowly lifted his cloak with the hand holding the money bag, and suddenly rushed forward to grab the little Lori standing at the table with his back to him, put the dagger on Lilith's neck, and retreated back to his position and shouted to Rogge, "Get out of the way!"

"Sir, it's not good for you to do this, you will make what could have been negotiable become non-negotiable. Rogge stared at him with a slanted eyebrow.

"Don't talk nonsense, if you don't get out of the way, I'll kill this little girl!" the masked man yelled at the two of them in a hoarse voice.

"Okay, okay, don't get excited, there's something to say. Rogge got up from his chair and dragged his chair out of the way, and then retreated with Catherine to the outside of the house, where the man in the house carefully held Lilith hostage and walked towards the door, only to see Rogge close the door casually.

"What's going on?"

Standing outside the door, Rogge heard a surprised scream from inside the room, followed by a scream, he leaned against the door casually and listened to the screams coming from inside, shrugged his eyebrows at Catherine and said, "I told him not to get excited, it will make things worse." ”

After a while, the room was quiet again, the door slowly opened, and little Lolit Lilith poked her little head out of it, blinked her big eyes and said, "Bad wolf, I'm done, when can we have dinner, I'm hungry!"

"Don't worry about the food," said Rogge, glancing out the window at the already dark sky, "Let's see what Mr. Kidnapper looks like, and then ask where Old Klose is, I guess Old Klose is still alive, so we should be back here for the celebration before midnight." ”