The next morning, Heilman rushed to Brannan's villa on the outskirts.

He couldn't wait to ask if there had been any phased results last night.

However, the villa gate is closed.

Heilman knocked on the door for a long time, and the butler appeared at the gate belatedly.

"The young master took someone out last night, and he hasn't come back yet."

The butler glanced at Heilmann through the half-open crack in the door and closed it again.

Heilman was locked out.

He's a little weird.

No, even if it's far from the Hyde Street Pier, it should be back in one night.

Could it be that the two sides are fighting?

Just as he led the horse and was about to get on it and leave.

Brannan and his retinue appeared at the gate of the courtyard of the villa, and were facing him.

Heilman's eyes narrowed.

This group of people doesn't seem to be in the right state.

Brannan rode his horse to the front.

The rich second generation's eyes were bloodshot, his blazer was missing a sleeve, and his pants were covered with dust.

And the retinue behind him were also disgraced.

Brannan saw Heilman leading his horse at the gate of his villa from afar, and he was immediately angry.

He dismounted and walked briskly to Heilman's door.

"What? Suffered a loss last night? Heilman asked.

Brannan crossed his hands on his waist and stared at Heilman with a somewhat hideous expression: "What the fuck are you fooling me?!" ”

Heilman was confused:

"Didn't Holly and Chen Jianqiu come?"

"it!" Brannan spat at the ground with a thick phlegm, completely devoid of the appearance of a high-class person, "You think this makes a lot of sense, don't you?" ”

After saying that, he didn't wait for Heilman to reply, and passed by the old detective.

"I think you should have made it a little clearer." Heilman's voice also froze.

If it were a decade or so ago, Brannan would have been lying on the ground eating dirt by now.

"You asked me to take the reporter to Pier 63 on Hyde Street last night, saying there was going to be a surprise."

Brannan turned, the corners of his mouth twitching with anger.

"It turned out to be a surprise, but it wasn't about Holly and Chen Jianqiu, but about my wife and his lover!"

Heilman gasped, and he suddenly understood what was going on:

"I think we've fallen into a trap!"

"That's also a trap!" Brannan yelled at Heilman without grace, "No wonder you Pinkerton will be kicked out of California, Mr. Heilman!" Our cooperation has ended, do you understand? ”

Hearing the young man's hysterical accusations, Heilman laughed instead of being angry.

He has a way to deal with this kind of person.

"Then how about I help you catch the lover who committed adultery with your wife?"

Hearing this proposal, Brannan's eyes lit up:

"Good! Help me catch the adulterer and adulteress, and I'll pay you." ”

Last night he had followed the coast with his bale retinue of gun-gunned men after the rival named Dick.

As a result, they chased all the way to Fisherman's Wharf and did not catch up.

Dick doesn't seem to be the first time he's been caught hooking up with someone else's wife, and he's very experienced in running away.

Not only did Brannan lose track of the man, but his cuffs were hung by nails from the railings of the trestle.

As soon as he exerted his strength, the sleeve became half-cut.

So, when Heilman said that he would arrest him on his behalf, he agreed.

At this time, he had completely forgotten about the anti-strike and Chen Jianqiu's affairs.

After Brannan returned to the villa, Heilman sighed deeply.

He was more worried about something else now.

Last night's incident was obviously a trap, and the damn Brannan betrayed his teammates to show the consequences.

The chess pieces that I have managed to bury are afraid that they are going to be dangerous.

Anxiously, he mounted his horse and headed for the barbershop in the city.

"Look at it."

In a remote warehouse on the outskirts of the city.

Chen Jianqiu took the newspaper handed to him by Hanif.

The headline on the front page above is what happened at Pier 63 Beach on Hyde Street last night:

San Francisco's rich man broke his wife's adultery, and the beach staged a gun chase!

"It's time to close the net." Chen Jianqiu folded the newspaper and put it back on the table, "Yesterday's incident, only you and those three people know, now it can be determined that the inner ghost is in these three people." ”

He stood up.

Hanif stepped forward and handed another report to Chen Jianqiu.

This is the whereabouts of those three people in the past two days, down to where they have gone and who they have met.

Chen Jianqiu didn't look at the report, but returned the report to Hanif: "You can check it yourself, and you can find it clean." ”

"Hehe, thank you boss, I know you still value me." Hanif said with a shy face, "Following you is definitely the wisest choice!" ”

"Oh?"

Chen Jianqiu was just about to leave the warehouse when he heard Hanif's words that were very interesting.

He turned, put his hands behind his back, and looked at the bounty hunter with a smile:

"What? Someone is going to dig you? How much is your thick-eyed man worth? ”

Hanif was furious by Chen Jianqiu, and hurriedly reported truthfully:

"It's Pinkerton's guys, and they want to come back to California and poach me to lead the team."

"You promised them?" Chen Jianqiu raised his eyebrows.

"No, how is it possible, I, Hanif, am a person who knows how to repay his kindness, how can I betray my benefactor! Boss, your kindness to me is deeper than the waters of the Pacific Ocean and higher than Peak Whitney (the highest peak in the United States)! ”

Hanif said righteously.

"I'm afraid I didn't have enough money." Chen Jianqiu glanced at him.

Hanif smiled.

"Alright, I'm leaving, you can do it yourself." Chen Jianqiu walked out of the gate.

"Boss, when will I be reinstated?"

Hanif asked at Chen Jianqiu's back.

"Let's be an assistant to your apprentice for another three months, one day he says that you can become a regular, and you go back to be the boss for him." Chen Jianqiu's voice floated over.

Hanif looked at the top of the warehouse.

It was as if he had gone back to when he was a supernumerary.

He turned his head and shrugged at Hawley: "Lord Chairman, please call those three people." ”

Hawley nodded and walked out the door.

A few hours later, the summoned Knights of Labor officers appeared at the door of the warehouse.

However, there are only two people!

Veteran undercover Duncan and angry Bowen both came, but Gordon, the lumberjack, did not appear.

"We didn't find him." "The lumberyard workers said he left first. ”

"Smack!"

Hawley slapped the table in front of him, startling everyone present.

"You go to the office and wait for me first, the day after tomorrow is the strike, I will make the final arrangements." He said to the people of the Knights of Labor.

Everyone, including Duncan and Bowen, didn't understand the significance of Hawley's arrangement.

If you want to go to the office, why call them to this warehouse on the outskirts where birds don't.

It's a bit of a weird thing.

Still, they did as Hawley had arranged.

After the group left, Hanif walked out of a compartment in the corner of the warehouse.

"We need to find Gordon immediately, and we can't let him wreak havoc on this strike!" Hawley looked serious.

"Don't worry, he won't be able to escape." A smile appeared on the corner of Hanif's mouth, "Just give him to me." ”

(End of chapter)