020

Holmes and Watson went out for a night and had a great harvest. They did find out where the Christmas goose came from, and traced the way to find the two men who had harassed Mrs. Horner.

It was early in the morning when they returned, and Mrs. Hudson had not yet gotten up, and Agatha simply prepared some breakfast for them in the second-floor apartment, and got two glasses of hot milk.

Sherlock Holmes looked at Agatha and asked, "Can you make another pot of black tea?" A little milk in black tea, and some bread and bacon is the perfect breakfast. ”

Agatha was a little helpless, "I thought you didn't have any requirements for breakfast, as long as you could fill your stomach." ”

Probably because of the breakthrough in the case, Holmes seemed to be in a good mood, and he looked at Agatha with a smile.

Agatha met his gaze, thinking that no one would be able to refuse him when those deep, sky-grey eyes looked at someone with a smile on their face.

Ever since Agatha thought about it one day, no matter what Holmes asked, she would treat him as a spoiler for the fans, so she had no psychological barriers, and she wouldn't think that Holmes had made any requests to her and was using her as a servant.

She went to make a pot of black tea and came back to the table, and Watson had already set the utensils.

When Holmes saw her coming over with black tea, he helped her pull out the dining chair and smiled, "Thank you." ”

Agatha was a little surprised by his actions, but when she thought about it, she felt that there was nothing surprising.

Just because Holmes was sometimes too lazy to bother with human affairs doesn't mean he doesn't understand.

He can easily capture a person's heart if he wants to.

Such a thoughtful gesture was just to thank her for fulfilling his wishes.

During the meal, Watson told Agatha about what had happened after he and Sherlock Holmes had gone to the Alpha Bar the previous night.

"After Sherlock and I went to Alpha's Bar to meet Henry Baker, the old gentleman got the Christmas goose of his dreams and went home happy. Sherlock and I learned from the owner of the bar that the vendor of Christmas Goose was from Covent Market, so we went to that market, and guess who we met there? ”

Agatha was stunned for a moment, "I guess? Have I seen that person? ”

Watson: "You haven't seen it, but you've heard it." ”

Haven't seen it, but heard it.

It had only been two or three days since Agatha arrived at the Baker Street apartment, and only a handful of people had seen it, and many people had heard of it, but only those few had anything to do with Angel's Tears.

She thought for a moment and asked Watson, "Is it the one who went to harass Mrs. Horner?" ”

Watson nodded and said with a smile, "Yes, that's incredible, isn't it?" I didn't remember this guy at first, but when Sherlock asked him what his name was, he called himself John Robinson. ”

Agatha was embarrassed, and she couldn't see that this liar was quite single-minded, and claimed that she didn't change her pseudonym.

"His real name is Ryder James, and he's the lobby manager at the Met."

Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and reached out a hand to hook the handle of the white porcelain cup, "I met him in the lobby when I went to the Metropolitan Hotel early in the morning. ”

Agatha was curious about what was going on, so she blinked at Holmes with a pair of beautiful eyes.

Holmes should have been tired from a busy night, but he seemed to be in good spirits.

He met Agatha's gaze and asked with a smile, "You're curious about what things are really like?" ”

Agatha nodded, "Can you tell me?" ”

Sherlock Holmes did not sell off, and found the key to the matter through subtle clues, so as to deduce the whole picture of the matter, which is his strength.

The matter is actually very simple, the lobby manager of the Metropolitan Hotel, Ryder James, has a greedy heart, so he joins forces with Countess Moka's personal maid to take Countess Moka's Angel Tears for himself.

"Ryder deliberately loosened the railing of the fireplace in the Countess Moka's dressing room, and took the opportunity to send John Horner into the dressing room to repair the railing. And the truth is that before John Horner went to the dressing room, the Angel Tears had already been taken by Ryder. He and the little maid were exhausted, and when everyone knew that John Horner had a history of stealing, Angel's Tears were stolen, and everyone would only think of John Horner as the first suspect. ”

Agatha thought for a moment and asked Holmes, "You said that the hotel caused a commotion, but it quickly subsided. In that commotion, did Countess Moka find out that the Angel's Tears were stolen? ”

Holmes and Watson were stunned for a moment, Watson looked at Agatha and asked, "Why do you think that?" ”

Agatha said, "It's very simple. Now that Ryder James had succeeded in arranging for John Horner to enter the Countess's dressing room, according to his plan, it should have been after John Horner left the dressing room, and the Countess found out that the Angel's Tears had been stolen. While John Horner was repairing the railing, the maid happened to be away for a quarter of an hour, and when she returned, the railing had been repaired, and John Horner was ready to leave. It seems that John Horner, when the maid was not present, accidentally saw the countess's jewelry box, and was greedy, and happened to be qualified to commit the crime, so he effortlessly got the jewelry. ”

"You guessed right." Sherlock Holmes spoke approvingly, "If there are no surprises that follow, your reasoning is correct." John Horner will be arrested by the police and convicted of theft again. ”

Agatha: "What's the accident behind that?" ”

Sherlock Holmes: "The accident that followed was that the Countess of Moka suddenly said that the angel's tears were not stolen, and that the stolen angel's tears were fakes. ”

Agatha:???

Watson looked at Agatha with a suspicious face, and his tone was a little uneasy, "This incident is really too unexpected, right?" ”

Say no?

Agatha only felt that the reversal was unusual, "but as we know, the Angel's Tears in the hands of the Countess of Moka are fakes. ”

Watson's tone was a little teasing, "Maybe Sherlock is wrong, the gem in our hand is not real." ”

Holmes reached out and tapped on the table, and reiterated to Watson again, "John, I will prove to you that the gems in our hands are real." ”

Watson couldn't help but laugh, "Okay." ”

Agatha pondered the plausibility of things, and the theft of the real Angel's Tears, which Countess Moca said was a forgery, was also easily credible.

After all, with such precious gemstones, who would be so careless to put in a jewelry box in the dressing room? No matter how reliable a personal maid is, she has to be cautious. After the theft, the Countess of Moca should have acted anxious, but she did not, saying that it was a forgery, and that the Angel's Tears had not been stolen at all.

Angel's Tears were not stolen, and John Horner escaped Ryder James' long-planned murder, but he may not have escaped another murder.

"Countess Moca actually knew that the Angel's Tears that were about to be auctioned were fakes, and the real Angel's Tears had actually been stolen from the Metropolitan Hotel."

Agatha looked up at Sherlock Holmes as she pondered, "You said that the little commotion was quickly quelled, and the fact that the Metropole claimed that it was caused by a small accident in their back kitchen, shows that Countess Morca didn't want this matter to be hyped up." However, the Angel's Tears meant so much to her that I had heard Mr. Millwarton say that the Countess of Moca would rather give up her property than the Angel's Tears, and that she could not have been indifferent knowing that the jewels in her hands were fakes. ”

Holmes' fingers on the table tapped and motioned for Agatha to continue.

Agatha: "And the fact that she had prepared the real gem in such a short time means that the gem was ready for a long time, and it is hard not to suspect that the Christmas Eve auction was a long-planned scam, and that the mastermind was probably the Countess of Moca, or someone close to her." ”

After a pause, Agatha added: "I don't even think that Mrs. Horner's conjecture is unreasonable, and that John Horner's disappearance has nothing to do with the Countess of Moka." ”

"Your reasoning is very convincing, but it is not necessarily the truth of the matter."

Holmes leaned back in his chair, his tone somewhat nonchalant.

Watson, who was drinking milk tea, couldn't help but look at Holmes, because he felt that Holmes was in a very happy mood, and whether this pleasure was related to Agatha's reasoning or their harvest last night was unknown.

After these two days of getting along, Watson also has a different understanding of Agatha, and the girl who looks innocent and beautiful is not as innocent and innocent as she looks on the outside.

How did the infamous Milvorton raise a girl like Agatha?

Agatha wasn't unaware that her performance would cause the two men to be suspicious, and since she wanted to be friendly with Sherlock Holmes and Watson, there was no need to hide it.

There are some things that are not so difficult to accept.

After all, in addition to his despicable and despicable methods, Mill Walton was a fearsome and dangerous man.

What kind of maid he can train is reasonable.

"Mr. Millwharton often chats with the secretary in the study, and I am the only person in Appledor's villa who can enter the study other than the secretary and Mr. Milwharton."

Agatha looked at Watson, bent her eyes, and said to him with a smile, "I often hear them talking about how to better blackmail people. ”

Watson: "......"

Only...... The kind, benevolent doctor couldn't imagine how a young girl would feel when she listened to Milwarton and her secretary talk about those things.

Anyway, when he heard about such a thing, he only thought that Milwalton was such a bastard, and it was fortunate that Agatha was out of the mud and not stained, otherwise he would have gone astray.

Probably too out of the mud to be stained, so that he could still be deceived by the plumber in the disguise of Sherlock Holmes.

This caused Watson to bemoan for a while, not knowing whether to lament Milwharton's educational failure, or to praise Agatha for having a pure heart.