Chapter 5 Section 5

Jenny said she woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of footsteps on the roof, just above her bedroom, and then a sound from the stairs.Yanni pulled off the blindfold and grabbed the gun on the chair. "At this time, the dog barked, just like it usually met a stranger." Yan Ni walked towards the direction of the sound with the gun in hand, her head was still heavy, obviously the sleeping pills hadn't worn off yet. Pushing open the door, Yanni saw a dark figure. Speaking of this, Jenny Odward broke down in tears: "The foot I stepped out subconsciously retracted...Through the half-open door, I fired two shots at the black shadow."

The bullets passed through the 18-foot (approximately 5.5 meters) wide aisle, flew towards the stairs, and flew to Mr. Odward's bedroom next to the stairs, and exploded in William Odward's head and neck. Constable Edward Robinson asked, "Didn't you see the light coming from your husband's room when you opened the door and shot?" William Woodward's bedroom was lit when the police arrived. Jenny Woodward: "I don't remember. Maybe the lights were on, but I really don't remember." Edward Robinson: "You opened the door and stepped back a little after seeing the shadow. Can you tell me, Mrs. Woodward, how far inside the door was your position when you shot?"

Jenny Woodward: "Everything happened in an instant, in fact...in a flash. I heard noises, doors opened, guns fired, that's all." After the gunshot, a terrible thought flashed through Yanni's mind. "No, God, no!" The black shadow struggling and convulsing at the door of the opposite room was her husband!She shot William! Jenny can recognize her husband in the light, and she can also recognize her husband in the dark.Yanni knew without opening her eyes whether William was lying beside her.Did she really glance at the dark corridor?Did he really see a black shadow and not recognize that it was William?

Yanni ran across the corridor with her bare feet and fell beside William.William was lying face down on the ground, with his feet touching the door and his head on the bedpost inside the room.Yanni could see two big bloody holes on his right cheek and neck.The medical examiner later said William Odwald was apparently turning away for some reason. After about 10 minutes, William stopped struggling and convulsing, and his body gradually became cold and stiff. After the haze cleared, Jenny Odward looked around in horror and found herself in her husband's bedroom.Two wrinkled pillows on the bed...the alarm clock ticking under the desk lamp...the black leather briefcase on the chair beside the desk...Janni can't remember the last time she saw all this When was it, because, when William Odward was alive, he almost never allowed his wife to set foot in his bedroom.

Because, fundamentally speaking, he and she do not belong to the same world. The Odwa family can be called a wealthy family. The people, things, or animals in the Odwa family have been included in various "encyclopedias" in the United States.For example, the record about William Odwald's father William the Great in "Characters"—— William Odwald (born April 7, 1876, died September 26, 1953), a famous American banker and lawyer, owns many thoroughbred racehorses that have won championships in various competitions. William Sr. was born in New York City to William Odward Sr. and Sarah Abergail.

The Odwa family immigrated to North America during the colonial period before the American Revolutionary War. The earliest accumulation of their family property originated from providing cotton and fabrics to the Northern Army during the Civil War.After the war, William Sr. pioneered the New York cotton futures market, and in the second half of the 19th century, he assisted his brother James Woodward to acquire a number of small banks, financing 200 million U.S. dollars and merging them into the "National Bank of Hanover, New York", which later became Nowadays part of Chase Bank. Great William's father died young, and his uncle James remained unmarried all his life and regarded Great William as his own.

Great William graduated from Harvard University in 1898, received a law degree from the school in 1901, and passed the bar exam in the same year. For the next two years, Great William worked at the U.S. embassy in Great Britain as secretary to Ambassador Joseph Jyoti.During his stay in England, Great William joined the Royal Jockey Club, which was formed by the country's politicians and plutocrats and included King George VII. txt novel upload share