Chapter 17 Chapter 16 The Special Envoy and His Envoy

No matter how much Mrs. Bratt and Hei Lin persuaded, Stephen Megara still refused to stay overnight on land. During the rest of the day, he regained his open-minded look and talked freely with Margaret and Hei Lin's mother. Women, Lincoln and others together.Towards dusk his manner began to show uneasiness again.When it was still dark, he returned to the yacht moored in the bay.In the dark night, the lights of the yacht shone blindingly into Oista Island.When Mrs. Bratt came to the yacht with her deceased husband's old friends, she kept begging him to come and live with them. "No! Margaret!" he said, "I'm going to sleep on the 'Black Forest' tonight. After years of sailing life, the sea has become my real home... I am very grateful for your persuasion, but ——" His tone became a little bored, "I'll keep it, it will only make you less safe, good night, Margaret, don't worry!" The two detectives who followed them to the bay had strange expressions on their faces. expression.Mrs. Brat raised her face full of tears, looked up at the sky, and went home helplessly.The tragedy didn't seem to hit her too hard.She walked casually past the totem, on which an eagle lowered its beak in thought.

Those who participated in the secret meeting in the afternoon sealed up the matter of the Tifan brothers and did not announce it to the outside world. Stephen Megara put aside the questioning eyes of Captain Sweet and Stallings, and went back to the cabin.Plainclothes criminal police patrolled the deck, and Megara locked the cabin.I only heard the sound of pouring wine from the bottle, and after about two hours, the lights went out.From the looks of it, although Megara was very calm, she still had an indelible fear in her heart, so she borrowed wine to strengthen her courage.After that, there was silence in the cabin, and he probably fell asleep.

The next day was Saturday, and Bradoudo was full of life that morning.Early in the morning, two police cars sped in from the road and stopped in front of the mansion.The Bonn police officer looked like Caesar was on an expedition, got out of the car high-spiritedly, walked through the police lineup and came to the pier.There was already a police boat waiting there at this time, and the police officer jumped into the police boat with confidence and sailed to Oista Island. The whole procedure was carried out openly, and a few small figures could be seen on Oista Island, watching the approaching police boat.Dr. Deng Paulo watched curiously, and the couple surnamed Lin also watched the whole process intently on the grounds of going to the pier to row a boat.

The officer walked up the ladder of the Black Forest and disappeared. Five minutes later, he appeared with Stephen Megara. Megara looked tired and smelled strongly of alcohol. He didn't ask Captain Sweet, and went down the ladder with the police palace. The two boarded the police boat and sailed back to shore. On the pier of Bradoudo, they talked in a low voice, and the guards beside them waited patiently. Afterwards, a group of criminal policemen in police uniforms hugged them into the car, and the two left under strict guards. When they came to the main house of the mansion, a plainclothes criminal policeman jumped out of the back seat of the first car and saluted them.Bonn and Megara quickly boarded the first car, and the second car was also full of criminal police officers. Then, with the screeching sound of police cars, the two cars cleared the obstacles, sped forward, and drove onto the Brado Highway.

In front of the convoy, there were four patrolling policemen on motorcycles, followed by the police car in which Megara and Bonn were sitting, and the second car full of criminal police came to the rear... When these two cars disappeared in Brado After the highway, a very strange phenomenon appeared in the whole of Bradoudo, that is, there was not a single policeman or plainclothes criminal police in the whole city. The team of four motorcycles and two police cars passed through the city's traffic arteries, and rushed towards New York City... After the police officer and Megara left, the entire Bradoudo was filled with a harmonious and quiet atmosphere.The couple surnamed Lin rowed back; Dr. Dun Paulo strolled in the forest with a pipe in his mouth; In the car of the Bratt family, he went to work in the urban area; Professor Adori's house in the suburbs was also quiet from the outside.

However, things were not as good as imagined. I thought everything was calm... Because at the two important turning points of Bradoudo, a police car full of criminal policemen stopped there and blocked the road. There is also a large motorboat moored in the bay.Because it was parked behind Oista Island, it could not be seen from the mainland at all.On the boat, many police officers were fishing happily... On the surface, they were fishing, but their eyes were sharply staring at the entrance and exit of the bay, checking for any boats that wanted to leave by water.