Chapter 63 Section 12
Nothing happened the night, except, Alexander said afterwards, that he himself went out in the middle of the night to drink at "Clark Cook's Bar" by the sea.When did you come back?have no idea.
But Klos von Proe knew what time he himself woke up—Sunday, December 21, at half past five in the morning.
Sunny was still asleep.Cross let the four dogs out, showered, shaved, went for a walk, and went home to read the paper. It was after eight o'clock when the manor, John Birdie, saw the master pass the master bedroom and enter the study.Yesterday's phone call was only halfway through, and Cross had to continue discussing the financial report of R.J. Reynolds with Margaret Neely.The first two pages of the report read okay, but the third page didn't look right.Eventually the two figured out that someone had inserted the third page of an irrelevant report into the report by mistake.Cross was angry.
At 9 o'clock, Robert Byers, the housekeeper, saw Cross go out, this time taking a different route to the beach for a walk.
At 10:30, John Birdie passed the corridor with a vacuum cleaner, and was stopped by Cross: "I'm sorry, John, Mrs. von Pro is still sleeping. You don't plan to wake her up?" John knew that the whole family had lunch today I'm going back to New York, Madam usually wakes up early in this situation, she shouldn't sleep up so late.But he didn't say anything.
At 11 o'clock, Alexander got up, went downstairs, and saw from the window at the corner of the stairs that his stepfather was coming back from outside with four dogs.Alexander went into the dining room to find his little half-sister Cosima eating breakfast alone.
"Is mother awake?" Alexander asked.
"I don't know." The little girl replied.
Cross passed by the dining room and said good morning to the two children, and Alexander asked, "Is mother awake?"
"Didn't you see her?" Cross was a little surprised, "I'll take a look."
According to Alexander's estimate, Cross went there for 10 to 15 minutes and came back to stand at the door of the restaurant and speak dumb words to Alexander.He obviously didn't want to disturb Cosima, the little girl was sitting with her back to the door.
Alexander followed Cross into the master bedroom, and the bone-chilling chill in the room made him shiver.The surrounding windows are still open, just as they were when he left last night.Alexander heard the sound of running water in the bathroom, and sure enough, his mother was there, prostrate on the ground, her head just under the toilet, her ankle-length purple-blue satin nightdress rolled up to her waist, revealing her white silk underpants...
"I tried, and she's alive," Cross said.
It was Alexander's idea that we better leave her alone.Cross immediately volunteered, said I was going to call 911, and told the boy to find a blanket to cover Sunny, and close the window quickly...
Two days later, Sunny von Prow, still in a deep coma, was transferred from Newport Hospital to Bryan Coma Specialist Hospital in Boston.
Turning over the new year, in mid-January 1981, the insulin test blood sample sent by Dr. Gerhard Meyer finally came out with results.According to the report of the Boston Medical Laboratory, there are 216 microunits of insulin per milliliter of blood, which is nearly 15 times higher than the normal level.
Dr. Harris Falkenstein, an authority in the Brain Department of Bryan Hospital and Sunny's attending physician, concluded that Sunny's coma was caused by "exogenous insulin", that is, Sunny was injected artificially. Insulin, resulting in coma.The writer William Wright believes in the book "The Von Pross Incident" that Dr. Falkenstein's conclusion is based on complete "independence". The so-called "independence" means that "the doctor did not know the black leather box , didn’t know about soap actress Alishan Essel, or that if something happened to Sunny, her husband would get a quarter of her estate, about $15 million.” Ni's three children are divided equally.
About ten days before that, on January 5, 1981, Monday, Princess Anne Lorraine, who had rushed back from the other side of the Atlantic, and her younger brother, Prince Alexander, walked into the lawyer Warshaw Burstein on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan Lou, as scheduled, came to meet their newly hired criminal lawyer, Richard Cool.