Although Emilia left alone, Shade still felt as if there were a lot of people missing at the dinner table on Saturday morning.
Now that the portal established by Miss Sylvia and Dorothy has been completely stable, everyone except Carina, who is bedridden, gathered on the boat to have breakfast together.
During breakfast, Shade also asked about Agelina's situation. Of course, this meant that after Agelina's "passive invisibility" problem had been solved, whether she would continue to stay in the Vista Woodland or return to Tobesk.
Dorothy did not call Lesia, they had already discussed the matter:
"Shadow, what do you think?"
Agelina's emerald green eyes immediately looked at Shade. Everyone felt that she was trying to project "I want to stay" into Shade's mind. Unfortunately, she didn't know how to "telepathy" yet.
”.
"Then let Agelina stay for the time being. I've been reading the newspapers in Vista City these days. Didn't it say that Princess Agelina Cavendish has been seriously ill and will die soon? Even if she takes over
Everyone will understand if I don't show up for the next few weeks."
Shade then said, and the little princess immediately wanted to smile, but thinking that her sister was still around, she immediately lowered her head and pretended that she didn't really care about it.
Miss Sylvia on the side shook her head:
"Kasenrik hopes that people will read more of the tidbits in the North Country. Agelina's illness just happened to happen. If the princess in the North Country does not get sick, it is probably necessary to arrest a few important people from Kasenrik's country.
The corrupt people are here to distract us."
The investigation on the Jindel family officially started today. There must be a lot of top-secret information within "MI6", but a lot of this information can only be known by the king. No matter how good the relationship between Shade and Director Anlos is, they cannot find out. Therefore,
Shade did not return to Tobesk to find his boss. Instead, he took the information that Miss Bell and the others had investigated and planned to visit the descendants of the Jindel family, Mrs. Colonel Dupont, who was suspected of being a spy in the North.
That Colonel Dupont is the highest officer of the "Twilight Forest Post". He is two years younger than Shade's friend "Eight-Gun Captain" Major Rades, but his military rank is two levels higher. He is always
Living in a military camp in the woods, and family members are not allowed in the military camp, so the colonel's wife lives in the city, and the couple only see each other when the colonel is on vacation every month.
The colonel and his wife have a son and a daughter, who are now adults and continue their studies in the city of Willondale. Because of the special location of the Vista Woodland, Colonel Dupont can directly contact the highest military department of the kingdom. In this regard,
He is actually the most powerful person in this small town, but his home in the east of the city looks ordinary.
The high fence blocks people's view of the courtyard at the end of the street. Looking inward through the fence gate, the swing is swaying slightly under the big bare trees because of the cold autumn wind.
The house in the courtyard is not big, and every window on the outside of the three-story building has curtains drawn. As a visitor, Shade can see flower pots placed at the door of the house, but there are only withered flowers left in those flower pots.
of flowers.
"If such a scene were depicted in a novel, it would probably reflect the emptiness and loneliness of the hostess of the house. It would also reflect that although the family appears to be intact on the surface, in fact the relationship between husband and wife is as boring and boring as a dead leaf.
Fragile."
The person who said this was not the famous female writer Dorothy, but the artist lady.
Today, Shade was wearing a turtleneck black sweater with his usual black coat on top. Before he went out, Dorothy commented that he "looked very cold."
Flora is wearing a women's dark blue suit and skirt. The identities of the two of them today were provided by Miss Sylvia. But they are not businessmen, but agents of Gray Gloves. What Shade is holding is not a gray eagle.
The documents are the identities of other agents forged by Miss Sylvia.
"Miss Bell's investigation results show that the relationship between Colonel Dupont and his wife is indeed not particularly good, so are you working backwards from the conclusion?"
Shade said with a smile, and then rang the bell inside the fence door:
"The marriage between the two is considered a political arrangement and does not have much emotional foundation. After getting married, Colonel Dupont has been living in the army all year round. Although the two have children, it still seems like they are living their own lives."
Standing on the left side of Shade, the gray-black haired witch who was dressed especially young today also smiled and said:
"Ladies without their loved ones can easily wither like flowers in late autumn. I can already imagine the appearance of the colonel's wife."
Shade was thinking of Helena Oxenfurt, the woman who wore a black veil when they first met, which fit most people's impression of a "withered woman with a heart ashen as death".
But this time both he and Flora guessed wrong. When he explained that he was an old friend of the Jindel family, and was led by the maid into the house that was extremely dark without turning on the lights, the person he saw
Anne Dupont, who lived in this deserted, almost gray-white home, was a noble lady with a rosy complexion, fashionable clothes, and a very good spirit.
Information shows that she is forty years old this year, which is only slightly younger than Dr. Schneider, but at first glance she looks like she is about thirty years old. She wears a very fashionable high bun with brown waves.
With her hair, green eyes, and silver earrings on her ears, she looks like a model in the fashion magazines that girls often read.
After inviting Shade and Flora to sit down, the colonel's wife asked curiously:
"It has been many years since any friends from my parents' family have come to visit me. Who are you?"
Even after being disguised, Shade still had a typical northern face, so the lady smiled and said again:
"Although I heard that my parents have friends from the north, I have never met them."
Shade wasn't sure if this was a test. If she was really a spy, it sounded like she was trying to distance herself from the relationship. He looked at the pretty young maid who placed teacups on the coffee table, and asked Mrs. Colonel
Coughed a bit:
"Jessica, go to the kitchen and help prepare lunch."
"Yes, ma'am."
The latter consciously left here holding the saucer.
The reception room is located on the backlit side of the house, and today is cloudy, so the indoor lighting is quite poor. There are no lights in the room, white walls and dark furniture, making the room seem like a
Black and white sketch.
Flora was very interested in the composition of this scene. It was not easy to achieve this condition under natural light.
She originally thought that Shade would be polite first, or tell the identity story that Miss Sylvia had prepared for them in advance, but she didn't expect Shade to ask directly:
"Have all the contacts between your parents' generation and MI6 really been cut off by you?"
The woman sitting on the soft red sofa with a tea cup did not expect that Shade would actually ask this directly. She showed a little confusion and confusion:
"Young man, I don't know what you are talking about. If you are here to investigate me, can I first know which side you belong to? The Gray Gloves? The local police? Or the Military Prosecution Department of the Royal Army?"
After seeing her biggest secret, Shade took out two certificates from his pocket and shook them. One was the Gray Gloves certificate and the other was the MI6 certificate, but this was not to prove any identity:
"I can belong to any party, and may even belong to a third party. Since I brought someone to the door, I already have my own answer. Madam Dupont, are you willing to answer the question?"
The lady's head drooped slightly, allowing more shadows to cover her face, but after a moment, the face was raised again. Although there was still some uneasiness on her face, she was more relieved:
"It's useless for you to come to me. Although my father's generation did still have contact with MI6, that was more than 20 years ago. After my father passed away, Beiguo contacted me again, but I didn't give any information.
Any response.
As for the southern country’s intelligence network, it has nothing to do with me. Some time ago, William Anjou sent a young and handsome outsider to contact me, hoping to get some information from me, but I didn’t stay in contact with him for too long. I really
I don’t know anything, I just want to live a good life now, can you please stop disturbing me all the time?”
Flora was surprised that the other party said everything like this, but Shade knew that this was just to hide a deeper secret. He was actually not interested in whether the other party was a spy. The real question was:
"Mrs. Dupont, it's painful to keep secrets, isn't it? Although the Jindel family has disappeared locally, I believe that the bloodline will not be cut off. The fact that you are born in the Jindel family will not change no matter what. This is
Engraved in your body."
The face of the lady across from the coffee table immediately turned quite ugly;
"I don't know what you are talking about. If you doubt me, bring out evidence. If you don't, you will come to threaten me. This is not the behavior of a gentleman. Although my husband is only a colonel, he is still very powerful in the local area."
Flora felt that this lady had a greater reaction to the statement that "the bloodline will not be cut off" than to the "spy" mentioned by Shade.
Shade then continued to ask:
"I don't want to affect your life. What you do has nothing to do with me. I just want to know the history and secrets of the Jindel family. If you are willing to tell us, we will leave immediately after hearing it."
In order to show his sincerity, he even gave an example:
"You must have heard about the destruction of the local police chief Kande's family, right? I can tell you that this matter is also related to my investigation. As long as I want to investigate, whether it is treason, bribery or anything else, I can find out.