Chapter 33 Chapter Thirty-Three

God bless me.He could hardly believe his luck.It was a godsend.Steve Sloan took Julia into his hands.Hal Baker is a useless fool, Tyler thought.This time I killed her myself. He looked up to see Clark enter the room. "Excuse me, Judge Stanford, I have your call." "I'm Keith Percy. Are you Taylor?" "Yes, Keith." "I just wanted to update you on the latest news about Margo Posner." "what news?" "Dr. Gifford just called me. He said the woman was delirious and in such a bad condition that they had to keep her in a locker."

Taylor breathed a sigh of relief. "This news breaks my heart." "In any event, my intent was to reassure you that she will no longer pose any threat to you or your family." "I appreciate you," Taylor said.This is true. ※※※ Taylor went back to his room and hung up on Lee, who took a long time to answer. "Hello?" Taylor heard voices in the other room. "Is it Li?" "Who are you?" "Taylor." "Oh, it's you, Tyler." He could hear the crisp clinking of glasses. "You're having a family dinner, Lee?"

"Haha, do you want to join?" Tyler wondered who was at the party. "I wish I could. I called you to prepare you for the trip we were talking about." Li laughed. "You mean going to St. Tropez in that big white yacht?" "That's right." He laughed nonchalantly: "No problem, I'll wait for you anytime." "Li, I'm talking business with you." "Oh, stop talking nonsense, Tyler. How can a judge have a yacht? I have to hang up. The guests are greeting me." "Wait!" Taylor said desperately. "Do you know who I am?"

"Of course I know, aren't you just..." "I'm Tyler Stanford. My father is Harry Stanford." There was a moment of silence on the phone. "Are you teasing me?" "No, I'm in Boston now, and I'm dealing with property distribution." "Wow, God! You're that Stanford. I'm still in the dark. I'm so sorry. I... I heard this on a news show recently, but I didn't pay much attention, I didn't think it was you." "It doesn't matter." "You really want to take me to St. Tropez, don't you?"

"Of course, we're going to do a lot of things together," Taylor said. "But it's up to you if you want to." "Of course I am willing!" Li suddenly became enthusiastic. "Wow, Taylor, this is really exciting news." Tyler puts down the phone with a smile.Lee is already in my hands.Now, he thought, I should take care of my half-sister. ※※※ He went into the study, where Harry Stanford kept the guns and ammunition.He opened the box, took out a mahogany box, took out some ammunition from a drawer under the box and put it in his pocket, then carried the wooden box upstairs to his room, locked the door and opened the box.Inside the case was a pair of Luger revolvers, Harry Stanford's pets.Taylor took a gun and carefully loaded it.He put the extra ammunition and the case containing the other gun in the desk drawer.One shot is enough, he thought.His father had sent him to a military school, where he had developed an excellent marksmanship.Thank you, Father.

Then Tyler picked up the phone book and looked up the address of Steve Sloan's house. 280 Newbury Street, Newbury Park. Tyler walked to the garage, where there were five or six cars.He chose a most unobtrusive black Mercedes.He opened the garage door to see if anyone was disturbed.There was silence all around. ※※※ On the drive to Steve Sloan's house, Tyler thought about what he was going to do.He'd never killed anyone himself, but this time he had to put all his eggs in one basket.Julia Stanford was the last obstacle in the way of his dream, and by killing her, all his problems would be solved.There will never be trouble again, Tyler thought to himself.

※※※ He drove slowly so as not to attract attention.He came to Newbury Street and lingered in front of Steve's house for a while.There were a few cars parked on the street, but no one was around. Tyler pulled over to the next street and stopped, then walked back.He rang the bell and waited for the door to open. Julia's voice came from the door. "who is it?" "It's Judge Stanford." Julia opened the door and looked at him in surprise. "What are you doing here? Is something wrong?" "It's all right," he said nonchalantly. "Steve Sloan asked me to talk to you. He told me you were here. Can I come in?"

"of course can." Tyler walked into the living room and watched Julia close the door behind him.She led him into the living room. "Steve isn't home," she said. "He's gone to San Remo." "I know," he looked around. "Are you alone at home? Is there a housekeeper or anyone else for company?" "No, I'm safe here. Need something to drink?" "No thanks." "What do you want to talk to me about?" "Let me talk about you, Julia. I'm very disappointed in you." "disappointment……?"

"You shouldn't be here, do you really want to fight us for a piece of property that doesn't belong to you?" She watched him for a moment. "But I have the right to..." "You're not entitled to anything!" Taylor bellowed. "We were humiliated and punished by our father in those years. Where have you been? He tried to make things difficult for us every chance he got, and made us suffer. You never suffered like this. Huh, the victim is We, we deserve this property. You have no share." "I... what do you want me to do?" Taylor laughed. "What do I want you to do? It's nothing. You've done enough. Damn, you broke almost everything I do, you know!"

"I do not understand." "It's actually quite simple," he said, drawing out the revolver. "You will disappear from this world." She took a step back. "but I……" "Don't say anything, don't waste time. You come with me." She froze there. "What if I don't go?" "Oh, you must go. Live or die as you please." In a moment of silence, Taylor heard his own voice from the next room. "Oh, you have to go, you can live or die as you like." He turned around sharply. "what……?" Steve Sloan, Simon Fitzgerald, Lieutenant Kennedy, and two plainclothes police officers arrived in the living room.Steve also had a tape recorder in his hand.

Lieutenant Kennedy said, "Give me the gun, Judge." Taylor froze for a moment, then forced a smile, "Of course, I just wanted to scare this woman out of here. You know she's a fake." He put the gun into the detective's outstretched hand. "She's trying to take the Stanford property. Well, I'm not going to let her. So I..." "It's over, Judge," Steve said. "What are you talking about? You said it was Woody who planned..." "Woody didn't have the skills to plan it all, and Kendall had a successful career. So I started to track you down. Dmitry Kaminsky was killed in Australia, where the police had his pocket Found your phone number. You sent him to kill your father. You brought in Margo Posner and then insisted she was an imposter to avoid suspicion. You offered DNA testing for a chance to move a body. You also called Timmons under a fake name, hired Margot Posner to impersonate Julia, and then sent her to a psychiatric hospital." Tyler looked around and said menacingly, "Is this your evidence? I can't believe it! With this clue you set up this ridiculous trap? You have no evidence. I will give the phone number to Demeter Because I told Dmitry to be extra careful because I thought my father might be in danger. Apparently he was not careful. My father was killed by the same murderer as Dmitri, and the police should find that man. I The call to Timmons was to get him to find out. Someone was impersonating him, but I don't know who. Unless you can find that person and prove that we were in collusion, there is no evidence against me. As for Margo Posner, I do think she is our sister. I persuaded her to go to Chicago because she suddenly lost her mind, went on a shopping spree, and threatened to kill us all. I had her taken in, and Put her in a psychiatric hospital. I don't want to make this public in order to protect the family's name." Julia said, "But you came here to kill me." Taylor shook his head and said, "I don't want to kill you, you're just a fake, I just want to scare you away." "you are lying." He turned to the others and said, "There is one more thing you should probably consider. There may be no family members involved in this case, and perhaps someone in the know is manipulating it. This person introduced an imposter and managed to get Our family recognized her as a member of the family and promised her to share the property with us. None of you thought of that, did you?" He said to Simon Fitzgerald, "I'm going to sue you both for committing crimes. Defamation, and will soon get back what you took. These things can be used as evidence against me. You will regret dealing with people like me before I have completely broken you. I have a few A billion dollars, I can use this money to ruin you." He looked at Steve and said, "I dare say that your final mission as a lawyer is to read Stanford's will. Well, if you don't plan to Accusing me of carrying an unlicensed firearm, I should go." Everyone looked at each other, at a loss. "Can I go? Then I'll go, good night." These people had to watch him go out helplessly. Lieutenant Kennedy was the first to break the silence. "My God!" he said. "Do you believe what he says?" "He's scaring people," Steve said slowly. "But he's right, we don't have evidence, we need evidence. I thought he would plead guilty, but I underestimated him." Simon Fitzgerald said: "It appears that our little plan was thwarted. Without the testimony of Dmitry Kaminsky or that woman named Posner, we can only speculate." "Isn't his threat to kill me evidence?" argued Julia. Steve said, "Didn't you hear what he just said? He was just trying to scare you because he thought you were an imposter." "He didn't just scare me," Julia said. "He wanted to murder me." "I understand, but there is nothing we can do. Dickens was right: 'The law is an ass.' All we have done is in vain." Fitzgerald frowned. "It's worse than that, Steve. Tyler's going to sue us. If we don't have evidence, we're going to be in trouble." After the others had left, Julia said to Steve, "I'm so sorry about all of this. I feel like I have some responsibility, and if I don't come..." "Stop being silly," Steve said. "But he said he was going to ruin you. Will he do it?" Steve shrugged, "We'll have to wait and see." Julia hesitated for a moment, then said, "Steve, I'd love to help you." He looked at her puzzled. "What are you helping me with?" "Well, I'm going to get a lot of money, and I'm going to give you enough money to enable you to..." He put both hands on her shoulders. "Thank you, Julia. I can't take your money. Nothing will happen to me." "But……" "Don't worry about it." "He's a villain," she said in a trembling voice. "You have been brave in handling this." "You said there was no way of catching him, and I thought if you lured him here you might be able to get him into a trap." "It looks like we fell into the trap ourselves now, doesn't it?" ※※※ Julia lay in bed that night thinking about Steve and wondering how she could protect him.I shouldn't have come, she thought, but if I hadn't come, I wouldn't have known him. In the next room, Steve lay in bed thinking about Julia.The thought of the thin wall separating Julia's bed from his oppressed him.What can I say!This wall was built with billions of dollars. ※※※ Taylor walked happily on the way home.He thought about the hand-to-hand combat that had just happened, and how he had outwitted them.These people really stand in the way, he thought.But he didn't know that his father had thought the same way. ※※※ Taylor returned to Rose Hill, and Clark came out to meet him. "Good evening, Judge Taylor. Have a good evening." "Never had a better time than today, Clark. Never." "May I get you something to drink?" "Well, I'd love to have a glass of champagne." "Of course, sir." This is simply a celebration, a celebration of his victory.Tomorrow I will be worth two billion dollars.He recited these words over and over happily, "Two billion dollars...two billion dollars..." He decided to call Li. This time Li recognized his voice immediately. "Taylor! How are you?" His voice was soft. "Very good, Lee." "I've been waiting for your call." Tyler was a little ecstatic. "Really? Would you like to come to Boston tomorrow?" "Of course I would...can you tell me why?" "The will will be read tomorrow. I will inherit two billion dollars." "Twenty...that's an astronomical figure!" "I want you by my side. We're going to buy that yacht together." "Oh, Taylor! This is great!" "So are you coming?" "Of course, I'll come." Li put down the phone and sat there sweetly repeating: "Two billion dollars... two billion dollars..."