Three Character Girl

Three Character Girl
the methodical thinking



At first glance Rani meticulously files on the table."


"'You forgot the most important file, Fitzroy, ' Tani scolded him. 'The original submarine design.' "'The files are at the very top, Lord Alloway.'


"'No, no, ' Rani refuted while flipping through the pile of paper. "'But I just put that file here!'


"'Now there is none, ' I added. "Fitzroy came forward with a confused face. It doesn't feel trustworthy. We flipped through the papers on the table; looked for them in the vault; but finally we had to realize that they were gone - and lost in just three minutes, he said, when Fitzroy wasn't in that room."


"Why did he leave the room?" ask Commissioner Saga quickly. "That's what I asked him," cried Sir Harry. "It seems," said Lord Alloway,


"exactly when Fitzroy finished compiling the files, he was shocked to hear the screams of a woman. Quickly he headed for the alley. On the stairs he met the maid of honor Lady Conrad who was French. The girl was pale and agitated and claimed to have seen a ghost - a tall figure dressed in white that moved without a sound. Fitzroy laughed at his fear and advised, politely, that the girl should not be foolish. Then Fitzroy came back here, with us coming in from the window."


"It seems everything is clear" Commissioner Saga commented wisely.


"The only question is whether the maid was an accomplice to the thief" Did she scream according to plan with her conspiring friend waiting outside" Or, instead of, is the man just hiding outside expecting an opportunity to come by himself" The shadow you see, I guess the male figure is not the female?"


"I can't be sure, M. Commissioner Saga. It's just - a shadow." The admiral snorted strangely, so it caught our attention. "There's something M. l'Amiral was going to say, I think," Commissioner Saga said calmly, smiling faintly.


"You see that shadow too, Sir Harry?"


"No" answered the question. "And Lord Alloway neither. Maybe just a moving tree branch or something. After we learned of the theft, Lord Alloway suspected that he had seen someone passing by on the porch. His imagination beguiles him. That's all."


"I don't usually have high imagination" stalked Lord Alloway with a faint smile.


"Omong empty. We all have imagination. We can all admit that we have seen something we have not seen. I had a long time experience at sea and I dared to compare my eyes with the eyes of a landlady. At that time I was looking right at the terrace. So, I'd see the same thing if there was something." He really insisted on this opinion of his. Commissioner Saga stood up and stepped quickly to the window.


"You don't mind?" tanyakanya.


"We need to solve this problem if possible." Commissioner Saga is out, heading for the terrace. We're following. From his pocket a flashlight was taken out and a flashlight played along the grass that limited the terrace.


"Where does he cross the terrace, milor'?" tanyakanya.


"About the opposite direction to the window." Commissioner Saga continued to play the flashlight for a few minutes, while walking along the terrace, then back again. The flashlight was turned off and the body was fixed. "


Sir Harry was right - and you're mistaken, milor'," he said calmly.


"The rain was heavy. If anyone passes the grass there will be no footprints. But, there were no footprints there - absolutely nothing."


Commissioner Saga's views went from one man's face to another. Lord Alloway looked confused and in disbelief; while the admiral was busy thanking him.


"I know I can't be mistaken" he said.


"Wherever I trust my eyes."


He was an honest portrait of an old sailor, so I couldn't help but smile.


"Therefore, the culprit may be the people inside the house," Commissioner Saga said softly.


"Very unlikely - they must have passed Fitzroy then." "And Fitzroy himself - do you believe him?" Lord Alloway's face flushed.


"fully, M. Commissioner Saga. I assure you my secretary. It's impossible for him to be involved in any way."


"Everything seems to be impossible" Commissioner Saga said a little loudly.


"It is likely that the plans are attached to each other, paired like wings, and fly away - comme ?a!"


He put his mouth out with a stick. "It feels impossible" chirped Lord Alloway impatiently.


"But, I beg you not to suspect Fitzroy. Think about it for a second - if he wanted to take the file, would it be easier for him to plagiarize without taking the risk of stealing it?"


"Here, milor'," said Commissioner Saga in a tone of agreement.


"You put out a word that bien juste - I understand your organized and methodical thinking. I'Angleterre must be happy to have you." Lord Alloway seemed somewhat embarrassed to hear this sudden outburst of praise. Commissioner Saga is back on the issue being discussed.


"The room where you sit all afternoon - "


"Sitting room" Yeah?"


"Also there is a window facing the terrace, because I remember your words that you came out through it. Is it not possible for someone to go out through the window of this sitting room and enter through it as well when Fitzroy leaves the study, and then back down the same street?"


"But, we must have seen it," the Admiral argued.


"Not if you've veered, and walked the other way."


"Fitzroy was just a few minutes away from the study, the same time we needed to walk to the end and back."


"It doesn't matter - it's just a possibility - it's actually the only possibility that happens."


"However, no one was in the sitting room when we came out" the Admiral explained. "Maybe they came in after that."


"You mean," said Lord Alloway slowly, "when Fitzroy heard the servant's scream and came out, someone had hidden in the sitting room and quickly entered and exited through this window, and leave the sitting room right when Fitzroy's been in here again?"


"Once again methodical thinking" Commissioner Saga commented, bowing his body. "You're expressing the problem exactly."


"Could it be one of the servants?"


Or a guest. It was Mrs Conrad's waitress who was screaming hysterically. What can you tell us about Mrs Conrad?"


For a moment Lord Alloway weighed in.


"So I say she is a widely known woman in society, in the sense that she often holds big parties and goes everywhere. But where he actually came from and how his life in the past not many know. He frequently visited diplomatic and foreign representative offices. The secret service will tend to ask."