Chapter 17 verse 16 in the side hall

"Although he is not married, he is living with a young Russian woman." Ms. Emma picked up her fourth glass of Cuba Libre, "You should ask me directly - is this a rumor with a high degree of truth? Oh, I heard that woman's name is Sharapova, a sexy and common name." She took a sip of her wine and shook her head, "Now she should be sad?" "Aren't Catholics against unmarried cohabitation?" Taphne was a little surprised, "And I heard that he is a very loyal traditional Christian?" She glanced at Ms. Emma—so we know her news Where did it come from.

"Love always trumps everything." Emma explained with a smile, "Piety is always shown most thoroughly when punishing others-this is a very common logic." "His career as a postman seems to be bleak," said Mr. Crew deadpan. "Isn't it so strange that he went to extort some money from Mr. John—on account of his brother's business?" "I was sure it was a check!" said Pressman, who had also been drinking a lot. "I don't know that now." He glanced at our black detective. Karl was surprised by this, and he asked angrily: "Who spread the news?"

He cast his eyes on Ms. Emma - she is a smart person, of course she knows the meaning of this gaze: "Oh, a lot of people like to watch the fun? It's just that your martial law work is not firm." She said sarcastically, "At least I can come in and out freely for a glass of wine. I can be on the way Saw quite a few acquaintances—they were all holding wine glasses too?" This reason is reasonable, and Karl seems to have nothing to say. But Miss Emma would not stop there, and she continued: "Besides, they just saw a check—the amount on it, and the beautiful signature of 'John Baines', are only in their guesswork? And Inspector Carl's affirmative tone just now is just right. Falling into Pressman's trap."

In fact, she didn't see the content of the check either—she just wanted to take revenge on Carl for looking at him just now. Carl was no longer angry when he heard this.He smiled and said to Ms. Emma: "This is indeed a wonderful trap? It's time to start our inquiry." Now in the side hall, there are the following people: Wenzel, Taphne, Amy, Inspector Carl, Inspector Roth—except for our female anchor, these should be taken for granted. General Bureau's handwriting identification expert Ince. Butler Geiger, two security guards of the villa and an agent from the 10th Bureau—Mr. Geiger is here, so it is convenient to ask about some things related to the villa; the remaining two security guards and agents have been in charge of inquiries from the guests, Now also responsible for related records.

Ms. Emma and her husband - Mr. Lucius who is still lying on the sofa and has not woken up. Heiner, Pressman and Clew Waite -- three aging men we're familiar with too. In addition, there are Miss Esther, a famous wine taster in Meer, Hamish, a model collector, Captain Hallin, and Jeannie, a magazine model - all of them A friend of the host, or a friend of a friend. "The woman with the long red curly hair" is still absent "So, I am very glad that everyone here can cooperate with our inquiry work?" said Inspector Roth, "Please allow me to introduce myself first. I am in charge of this murder scene. Inspector Rotter Cochrane."

"Aren't we all standing?" Mr. Khamis muttered impatiently. "I always hate formal things?" Captain Harling was also dissatisfied with this, "We have already done the registration: Name, identity? There is no need for a self-introduction. " "There is no need to report our ages, right? Some things are professional secrets." Miss Jenny said pretending to be worried. "There are some professional secrets that you don't need to worry about?" Miss Emma sneered. "What do you mean?" Jenny turned her face and gave Emma a look.

"Okay, okay?" Karl had no choice but to stand up to quell possible disputes, "I am Inspector Karl from the General Bureau—except for a few necessary personnel, everyone is from after 8:20 to the first murder case. The guests who stayed in the wing during the time the scene was discovered: in other words, witnesses to the case." "If you have any questions, please ask quickly?" Miss Esther, who had been silent all this time, said, "I have to rush back to Mel City—this city is too messy." This drew Pressman's objection: "Is it true that there is less crime in the country than in the city?"

Miss Esther was about to retort when our detective stopped her: "Everyone wants to go home early," he said with a smile, "so it's best to avoid unnecessary quarrels." He gave Carl a look, "Hurry up and get to the point." "First of all, I want to confirm the results of the handwriting identification—Ince, tell me what you think about those two scarlet characters." "Okay, Carl." Ince coughed twice and began his speech, "First of all, I must declare that the bloody word is not 'SOLL', but for the sake of Carl's later summary, I will not keep this secret for now. break?"

There was a discussion among the crowd.Wenzel smiled, and Karl pouted at him—Wenzel ignored him, and began to look at the guest list and gift list that Ince had put aside. "According to the results of handwriting identification, the first bloody writing may have been written by John Baines himself." Ince explained, "Please note that the 'possible' I mentioned only exists a conservative Meaning: that is, it cannot be ruled out that the scarlet writing was written by John; at the same time, the handwriting of the scarlet writing is similar to John’s customary writing." Ince showed everyone the scene photos of the first scene of the scarlet writing, "It can be seen that this bloody character is written by the left hand. But according to our investigation, John Baines is a right-handed person-but even so, a person's preferred handwriting will not change, Even if there are obvious deformations, we can find similarities. In fact, when we write with a pen, we just copy the words one by one from the image of the brain to the paper? Of course, we can ignore the words when writing words. This process, because this behavior is quite familiar to the trained brain and handedness. Can the expression of these images even be done without eyesight?”, he showed several letters of John himself , "These are letters from the steward, written by the dead-according to our request, these are more recent versions of the letters, which can avoid the evolution of one's handwriting?"

"Hey! The recipient is Sears!", Emma looked at one of the letters and shouted as if she had discovered a new world. The people who had just quieted down began to discuss again. Ince quickly folded the letter, and the butler coughed suggestively twice.In order to cope with this situation, Karl had no choice but to stand up and say a few more words: "If necessary, we will refer to the contents of these letters," he glared at Miss Emma, ​​"we have to go step by step." People finally quieted down again.Wenzel came over from a table in the back and took the letters—he put them there together, comparing them with the signatures on the guest list.Miss Emma might be more interested in the content of the letter, so she took her Cuba Libre and went to Wenzel.

"Refer to the characteristics of these letters, as well as the focus and habitual turning points when writing, as well as the relative length between feature points - the pen used by the deceased. Therefore, we can also get the weight of the strokes and the time when the handwriting slides. Idiomatic angles and other related information. According to what I just mentioned, writing with fingers is the same in form as writing with a pen; It can also eliminate the font deformation caused by the unskilled writing of the non-dominant hand. Therefore, from the comparison with the signature on the guest list, I can cautiously draw a conclusion here-the first blood letter, very Possibly John himself wrote it." "This is a fallacy!", Captain Harling immediately gave his rebuttal, "I am right-handed, but I have tried to write with my left hand. If you don't look at the writing, the words are easy to overlap, and the written Things are completely different! Don’t fool people with whether you use a pen or not—I just wrote with my fingers on a sand table: even if I write the same words, the results I get are quite different.” The captain thought for a while , gave a good example, "For example, when writing the letter 'O', I write it clockwise with my right hand, but it is counterclockwise when I switch to my left hand; the 'W' and 'V' of my left hand are used to writing backwards. ?Anyone can try: The original strokes from left to right can be written from right to left after changing the left hand - such as 'E', 'F', 'T'?, 'H' can even be written in the opposite way It's easy: if you can get the same handwriting in this way, it's just absurd! " "Don't get excited, sir." Wenzel put down the letter in his hand and walked over from the table, "Ince is just laying the groundwork for my friend's speech later." He told the embarrassed handwriting expert Said, "Please take the right to listen to a basic lecture on handwriting identification." The detective stroked his chin, "If I can make a hypothesis—I know this hypothesis is not very polite," he looked Glancing at his detective friend, "But I have to say, in fact, Mr. Ince didn't confirm that many handwritings—he was just trying to prove that the first bloody letter might have been written by John Baines," he said. Patted the handwriting expert on the shoulder, "Am I right?" Ince nodded with difficulty. He wanted to say something, but was stopped by our detective: "Don't tell me why, my friend," he said with a smile, "I know—and our friend Carl certainly knows too." Karl had no choice but to shrug his shoulders helplessly, and said to Wenzel: "Of course you know? Maybe you can also briefly explain the reasoning process of making this judgment to everyone." "It's quite simple." Our detective explained to everyone. "Actually, everyone is very clear: many of the names on the two guest lists were signed on behalf of the guests—perhaps for the convenience of returning gifts, when registering the names of the guests It is also recorded separately according to the names of male and female guests. Therefore, when gentlemen sign their own names on one piece of paper, they will not forget to sign their female companions’ names on another—just as I am signing After writing down your own name, you don’t forget to sign Taphne’s name on another piece of paper. Is that so, Mr. Steward?” Wenzel asked Mr. Geiger beside him. "Indeed." Geiger, the butler, confirmed, "Of course the return gifts for men and women should be different—this is our careful arrangement?" "Therefore, it is simply impossible to determine the handwriting of all the guests through the two guest lists-and even if only half of the signatures are confirmed, it will take a long time. From the murder to the present, there are still In less than two hours, it is impossible to get a comparison result so quickly." Dissatisfaction began to sound from the crowd. "Useless police?" Miss Esther muttered. "What the hell are these bastards doing!" Captain Harling, who had exposed Ince, became angry. "Ha, brilliant performance!", Emma began to use her best sarcasm. "Please be quiet, everyone!" Wenzel ordered in a loud voice-this method was very useful, and everyone was quiet at once. "The last question I want to ask now is," he said to a embarrassed Ince, "is the second scarlet and the first scarlet written by the same hand?" "I can't be sure, the font is too deformed." The expert shook his head in frustration. "Then excuse me for asking one more question," said our detective, "if you were given two letters written by Sears, would you be able to make some useful comparisons?" "I try my best." "Okay." Wenzel turned his head and said to the butler Geiger who was standing aside, "Please immediately take a few letters from Sears to the owner of the villa and send them to Mr. Ince—I can find three unsent letters. Letters, you will be sure to find thirty opened letters." The steward will go to this matter at once.