Chapter 20 Chapter Nineteen T
At 9:15 on Sunday morning, Bonn, who spent the night in Bradoudo, was called to the phone by Stallings. The call he had been looking forward to for a long time, when he received the report, he immediately pretended to be present He replied blankly: "Hey! Who's calling?" Whether Stallings was really deceived is unknown.However, from what the police officer said, I believe the housekeeper could not understand it.
"Yeah...yes...no! Good! Understood!" The police officer hung up the phone and hurried away in good spirits.
At 9:45, the Esham District Attorney led three county policemen in an official car and drove to Bradoudo in a stately manner. They were greeted in the hallway in front of the house, and the Bonn police officer ran out. Holding Esham's hand, talking in a low voice.
Using this method of attracting the enemy's attention, Ellery cleverly drove the sports car into the garage of Adori's house.
No one noticed that one of the cops accompanying the district attorney didn't have the distinctive demeanor of a team, and he immediately joined more of his fellow cops before they all went their separate ways.
Professor Adori was wearing trousers and a sweater, and was smoking in Sheramick's room. When he saw Ellery enter the door, he cheered, "Oh! My guest is back, I thought you weren't coming back !"
"Master, you must have heard this sentence?" Ellery took off his coat, sat on the inlaid marble floor, and said with a smile: "Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest... odiosussiet (if the hospitality is not Zhou, the guest will run away if they are unhappy), isn’t it?”
"Why do you quote the words of the Roman comedy writer Plautas to amuse me? In short, you have only been away from here for less than three days, what is the result?" The professor's eyes lit up.
Ellery replied, "I brought him."
"Really!" Adori pondered, "Should he wear a uniform? Well, it seems to be acting! It's really successful!"
"It was discussed in Minneola today, and careful preparations were made. Esham took two policemen, and after calling Bonn in an official car, he went to Bradoudo." Ellery He breathed a sigh of relief, the circles under his eyes had turned dark brown, "What an amazing trip! Principal Pang is as hard to talk as a clam, I'm so tired! But I don't have time to rest, do you want to stay Were you there when a terrible secret was revealed?"
The professor stood up in a panic and said, "Of course, my martyr's feet are numb from waiting. Have you had breakfast?"
"I've eaten in Mineola, let's go!"
The two left the house, crossed Bradoudo, and came to the corridor outside the house. Bonn was still talking to Ersham: "I want to report to the prosecutor about Fox." Bonn told him as if Ellery had never left. Say.
"Fox?"
The police officer told him what had happened.
Ellery shrugged. "Poor... Where's Megara?"
"He's on the yacht." Bonn said in a low voice. "That man has gone to the pier. Since yesterday, Megara's waist has been aching. Miss Bratt has already called Dr. Dunpaul, but the doctor did not say anything yesterday. I don't know where he's been all day, and I think he's off to the Black Forest this morning!"
"Didn't yesterday's plan come to nothing?"
"Nothing at all. It looks like the bait didn't catch any real wild geese. Now, get out before everyone wakes up!" The family was still asleep. They turned from the corner of the house to the bay. Three police officers followed Behind, the police boat set off, and no one noticed the third policeman.
Esham, Bonn, Adori, and Ellery boarded the motorboat, accompanied by three policemen. The engine of the motorboat vibrated and headed towards the yacht.
Next to the Black Forest, everyone went up the ladder in the same order. On the deck, several crew members in uniform looked at Bonn. Bonn swaggered past as if he was about to perform a mission.
When Captain Sweet opened the door, the person inside was saying, "How much? . . . "
Bonn walked past with the poise of a deaf man, and the party followed.The captain watched them pass with a pouted mouth, then slammed the door with his customary curse, and slammed the door shut.
The police officer knocked on the wooden door of the cabin, and the door opened, revealing the serious face of Dr. Dun Paulo: "Oh, good afternoon!" He said, "I am seeing a doctor for Mr. Megara!"
"Can I go in?" Ashham asked.
"Please!" Megara's nervous voice came from the cabin.A group of people walked in silently. Stephen Megara was naked without the bed sheet. His face was pale and tired.Sweat was dripping from the brows of his brow, and he sat up with his hands on his waist. He didn't pay attention to the police.With pain in his eyes, he stared at Dun Paulo.
"What kind of disease? Doctor," Ellery asked earnestly.
"It's a hernia." Dr. Paul Dun replied, "It's not malignant, don't worry, I've injected him with analgesics, and the pain will be gone soon."
"I got sick during this sea trip." Megara panted, "Okay, the doctor is fine now, please go back! I think everyone seems to have something to say to me."
Paul Deng's eyes widened, he shrugged his shoulders, picked up his leather bag and said, "Then! I will obey...but you must not ignore it! Although it is not necessary immediately, I still advise you to undergo surgery. He bowed stiffly like a soldier to the others, and left the cabin.The officer sent him out, and he didn't return until Dr. Dunpaul had set off for the mainland in his own launch.
Bonn closed the door of the cabin, and two policemen on deck stood guard with their backs to the door.Another policeman stepped forward and moistened his dry lips with his tongue.
The two were silent, looked at each other, and clasped their hands.
"Steven!" said the elementary school principal.
"Andrea!"
Ellery had an urge to laugh, and there was something comical about what should have been a tragic scene.Two tall, imposing men with foreign names—cabins, sick sheets, hazel uniforms... Ellery had never seen anything like it.
"It's Croshak! Croshak!" said the sick man. "As you can imagine, he found us at last."
Andrea Tivar said excitedly: "You just don't listen to my advice... I wrote a letter to warn you last December, have you contacted Doslav Bu?"
Steven shook his head slowly: "I didn't contact you because I was sailing in the Pacific Ocean where I couldn't communicate... How have you been all these years? Andorea."
"I'm fine, how long has it been since we saw each other?"
"Well, how many years has it been? Five years?... Six years?"
Both of them were silent, the police officer watched them, Esham even lowered his breath, Professor Adori glanced at Ellery, and Ellery hurriedly said, "Speak quickly if you have something to say! I would like to invite Mr. Pang ..." He pointed at the principal of the elementary school with his gestures, "Leave Bradoudo as soon as possible, and stay here for a minute, the danger will be increased. No matter who Kloshak disguises as, he is extremely cunning, we He will see through his disguise sooner or later, and I hope I won't be followed by that guy when he arranges for Mr. Pang to return to West Virginia."
"Yes!" Pang said thoughtfully, "That's it, let Steven speak now!"
The owner of the yacht sat up straight on the bed.Whether his pain had gone away—or he was too happy to forget it—he kept looking at the low ceiling of the cabin and said, "How should I put it? It was a very long time ago, Doslav Bu , Andorea and I are descendants of the Tivar family, one of the famous families in Montenegro..."
"And this famous family has disappeared!" the principal of the elementary school said in a frozen tone.
The patient seemed to think that this was insignificant, and he waved his hand and continued: "I want you to understand that we have inherited the most intense blood in the Balkans—hot blood—that almost boiling blood—" Megara laughed, but He immediately stopped laughing and said, "The Tifan family has an ancestral enemy, that is, the Kloshak family. They are also an ancient family and have been passed down for several generations."
"It's vendetta (revenge)!" cried the professor. "Of course, it's not exactly the same as the Italian vendetta, but it's a blood feud, and the Kentucky mountain dwellers in the United States have a similar behavior. Alas! Should have noticed."
"Yes!" Megara said immediately, "Why is there such a grudge? We don't know about it, the ancient reason has long been smeared away by bloody things, and our generation has long been ignorant of it." What's the reason, it's just that since childhood—"
"We've been taught to kill the Kloshaks," said the primary school principal in a hoarse voice.
"Because our side is more aggressive, our grandfather and father were brutal twenty years ago, so there is only one man left in the Kloshak family. He is the Vellua that everyone is looking for now. He was just a child at that time. Live with your mother."
"What a distant feeling!" Pang murmured, "What a barbaric act, the three of Doslavbu, Steven and I set up a trap to avenge our father, and took Kloshak's father and two uncles to death." killed……"
"It's unbelievable," Ellery whispered to the professor. "It's unbelievable that we're dealing with civilized nations."
"What happened to Kloshak?" Ersham asked.
"His mother fled from Montenegro with him. They hid in Italy, and soon his mother died."
"That's why young Kloshak has always hated you." Bonn said thoughtfully. "His mother must have repeatedly warned her child before she died. Did you always know the whereabouts of that child?"
"Yes. We had to do that to protect ourselves, because we knew he was going to come and kill us when he grew up, so we sent people after him. But we lost track of him when he was seventeen. Until recently……"
"Haven't you met Kloshak head-on?"
"Yes, I haven't seen each other since I left my hometown, when I was eleven or twelve years old."
"Wait a minute!" Ellery said, frowning. "Why are you so convinced that Kloshak has murderous intentions for you? He was still a child..."
Andrew Pang smiled wryly and said: "The people under our command were once tricked out of his mouth - no matter where we go to the ends of the world, he must find us and kill us. He said very clearly that we must be killed. The blood is completely drained."
"Then you—" Esham asked, "after listening to the young man's violent lies, you left your hometown and concealed your identity?"
The two men's faces were astringent.
"You will not know how strong the hatred of the Croshak is," murmured the navigator.He avoided the eyes of everyone and said, "There was a man in the Kloshak family who was chased to southern Arabia by the Tiffan family. It was several generations ago..."
"So even if you met Kloshak now, you wouldn't recognize him, would you?" Ellery asked.
"It's impossible to know... There are only three of us left, our parents are dead, the three of us are determined to leave Montenegro and live in the United States, and there is no longer anything that fetters us in our hometown. Andorea and I both Unmarried, and although Thomas was married, his wife died very early, and he had no children.
"My family is rich, so we sold our property and came here with a lot of wealth and changed our names. We made an appointment in New York in advance, and we decided to use our current name after discussion." (Ellery seems to want to say something , but said nothing, just smiled.) "We decided to use different countries as names. We found different nationalities in the map - I used Greece, Thomas Romania, Andrew Romania Armenia—because at that time we couldn’t deny that we were not Southern Europeans no matter how we looked at it, so of course we couldn’t say that we were born and raised in the United States.”
"I warned you about Kloshak," said the headmaster.
"Thomas and I - we're both well-educated - started what we're doing now. Because Andrea was worried (he was always easy to worry), he left us and went to study English alone, and then became a Primary school principal. Of course we all became citizens of the United States, and as time went by we never heard of Kloshak again, so it faded from our memory. Kloshak—at least It's become something of a fairy tale for Thomas and me, and we thought he might be dead, or else he didn't know our whereabouts at all." The navigator bit his lip, "If he knew—no !The fact that Thomas is married, our business is going very well, and Andrea went to Arroyo."
"If you had taken my advice," said Pon, in a stern tone, "this would not have happened. Thomas may still be alive. I have said repeatedly that Croshak will come and have a vengeance." .”
"Forgive me, Andorea!" Megara said in a serious voice, but he saw incredible pity in his younger brother's eyes, "I know, but you haven't seen us, and you No, you should admit this! If you have been getting along with us more like brothers, then..."
"If I stay with you all the time, Kloshak will catch us all in no time." The man from Arroyo shouted, "Don't you understand why I want to bury myself in the backcountry? I love life too, Steven, but I'm smarter, and you—"
"It can't be said to be very smart. Anyway, Klossak came to you first, and—"
"Yes!" said the officer, "Can Mr. Pang give me a specific explanation of what happened to Arroyo?"
The headmaster of the primary school began to shudder when he recalled that bleak and cruel memory: "Arroyo—" he began in a hoarse voice, "that is a terrible place. I made a man called Grandpa Peter several years ago I was driven by my sense of fear to replace myself with someone else. The dual personality must work—I thought so, it would be effective if Kloshak discovered it, and he found it— —” He couldn’t go on at this point, but after a while, he began to talk eagerly again, “I prepared that hut several years ago. It was when I went to the mountain to explore caves a few years ago. Found by accident, the cabin was unoccupied and desolate. I fenced the cabin with barbed wire and dressed up in Pittsburgh, used the school holidays to go up the hill to dress up as Grandpa Peter, and then to town to make the town Everyone is convinced that Grandpa Peter is a real person. Thomas and Steven--always make jokes about my plot, they say it's like I'm kidding kids. Steven, you Do you still think so? Don’t you think that Thomas lying in the grave may be regretting not doing what I said!”
"I understand!" Megara quickly replied, "Andorea, please continue!"
The refitted elementary school principal, with his hands behind his borrowed uniform, paced back and forth in the cabin very restlessly and impatiently...all the people present were listening to this amazing story with all ears.
"Christmas is approaching," Pang continued in his unusual tone - he noticed that in the past two months, he hadn't appeared in Arroyo dressed as an old man on the mountain for a long time, because he hadn't appeared for too long, so Those people on the street—probably the police officer Lu Deng, will investigate that remote hut in order to find the old man on the mountain... In this way, his careful plans in the past tried to deceive those people in the society. The means may be dismantled.Pang thinks so.When Christmas was approaching, their elementary school happened to have more than a week of vacation, so there were at least five or six days to play the role of Grandpa Peter. In the past, when he dressed up as the old man in the mountains in rags, the principal of the elementary school either asked for leave or went to spend the weekend.
"How did you tell Klimt when you left the house?" Ellery asked him. "Or you told your servant the secret."
"No!" Pang shouted. "He's a stupid man with no brains. I'll just tell him I'm taking leave to go to Blackwood or Pittsburgh."
He told Klimt that he wanted to take advantage of the vacation to go to Pittsburgh on Christmas Eve. That evening he left home to go to the cabin on the mountain. Of course, the clothes and props dressed as the old man in the mountain were placed in the cabin, so he dressed as Grandpa Peter.The next morning—Christmas morning, he got up very early and went to the street to buy food early in the morning, because the grocery store was closed on Christmas day, but he knew that as long as he pleaded with the grocer Baham, He will definitely sell it.When he came to the intersection of the main road and Arroyo street, it was half past six in the morning, and he was alone-discovered the crucified body, and he quickly understood the meaning of it. .He hurried to his own home, about a hundred yards from Arroyo, and what the others saw afterward had a very sad meaning to him.He realized at once that Kloshak came to this house by accident yesterday, mistook Klimt for Andrea Tivar, killed him, chopped off his head, and nailed it to a road sign.
He didn't allow himself the slightest hesitation, so he quickly thought about what to ask?Because of the God of Destiny's love for him, Kloshak thought that he had completed his revenge on Andorea Tivar, wouldn't it be great if he could continue to misunderstand him?From now on, I will always pretend to be Grandpa Peter. Not only Kloshak, but also the villagers living in West Virginia will be sure of it... Fortunately, the suit that Klimt was wearing before his death was given to him by Pang a few days ago Those in Arroyo might also think that the man in that suit was Andrew Pang, the principal of the elementary school.If you put some more documents in the pocket that may be Andrew Pang, there will be no doubt when it comes to identifying the body.
After taking out the letter and keys from his old suit, the elementary school principal sneaked back to the T-way to retrieve what might be thought to be Klimt from the humiliated body of Klimt—the man in the When the man in police uniform remembered what he had done, he still had lingering fears in his heart, and he trembled unknowingly—and put Pang's things in the clothes on the body of the corpse, and then deliberately rushed back and hid in the forest. Carefully set the fire, burn all of Klimt's credentials, and wait for someone else to come.
"Why?" Bonn demanded, "why don't you go back to sleep in your cabin on the mountain?"
"That is," Pon replied simply, "because I have to go to town and inform my brother and them in some way. But if I go to town and don't say anything about the T-road, it will definitely make people suspicious. Because from the mountain to the small town, the T-shaped road is the only way. However, if I discover this murder case alone, the people in the town will be suspicious; but if I can discover the body together with the good people in the town , then not only will no one be suspicious, but you can also tell your brothers about it by buying grain."
Farmer Eugenes came in an hour, and Pang—no!Grandpa Peter pretended to go to the side road and greeted Okins. The farmer invited him to give him a ride, and the two found the body naturally. What happened afterwards was just as Pang said: "Mr. Quinn has participated in the autopsy. Court, so the details should be very clear."
"Then how did you notify your brothers?" Esham asked.
"After I found Klimt on the T-road, I immediately wrote a letter to inform Doslav Bu, who is what you call Thomas Blatt. In the gap between the gates of the post office, because the post office was closed that day, I simply told them what happened in the letter, and warned him that Croshak had begun his revenge, and I would always disguise myself as Grandpa Peter. So, please, he and Steven, never say anything about it. I told them, at least I won't be found by Kloshak, because I'm dead."
"You're lucky!" said Megara sadly. "After receiving your letter, Thomas must have written the letter to the police because he couldn't correspond with me—he was worried I had an accident before arriving at Bradoudo, so I wrote that letter as a final warning."
Both Pang and Megara were pale, and they clearly showed the exhaustion in their hearts. People like Megara succumbed to this curse.
"That's why!" Esham said with lingering fear, "Then what should we do now? We still have nothing to do with Kloshak!"
Ellery said, "Guys, does anyone know anything about the past feud between the Croshaks and Tivers? Perhaps this lead can narrow it down."
"Nobody knows except us," the elementary school principal replied. "Of course I never told anyone."
"Is there ever a record of this dispute?"
"No!"
"Very well!" said Ellery thoughtfully. "Then the only one who will tell the story is Croshak. But I don't think he can do it. Croshak is grown up now." And he's just an extremist who wants revenge, and he must think that revenge should be done by himself. This kind of thing can't be done by others, right? Mr. Megara."
"Well! In Montenegro, such things cannot be entrusted to others," replied the navigator.
"Of course it is. In the struggle between two families, this kind of thing can be said to be the iron rule." Professor Yaduoli said, "And the previous racial wars in the Balkan Peninsula were more brutal than the wars in our country." Several times, that kind of bloody struggle has to be done by a member of the family."
Ellery nodded: "I don't know if Kloshak will tell this to people in this country, but I think probably not! Because if he tells it, he will be caught by that person, or he will Leaving clues that are not good for him, and from the cunning behavior of Kloshak in the past, he is not only extreme, but more importantly, he is very careful, so if there is an accomplice—although I don’t think he will have an accomplice—he What reward can be paid to an accomplice?"
"That's a good insight," Ersham agreed.
"From the fact that he took away the money in the iron cabinet at Mr. Pang's house—"
"There's one hundred and forty dollars in that box," Pang said.
"It follows that Kloshak was not rich; but there was no sign of disorder in Blatter's house, so that there was clearly no accomplice, who would have taken anything of value from the room. These two The murders were all purely for revenge, not for money, and is there any other evidence? Yes, after Klimt was killed, the only person found on the T-road was Vilua Klossak."
"What on earth are you trying to prove?" Bonn said in a displeased voice.
"No! I just want to say that this was done by Kloshak alone, and that he did not tell anyone else about it - I judged by his characteristic - cruel methods. And in a certain case Come on, he didn’t want to hide this fact, so I have this guess——Now that I think about these two cases, the murderer painted a thick blood T on the scene of the murder, which is equivalent to signing his own name. Whether the murderer is crazy or not, I I think he should be conscious, and even if there is an accomplice, I believe that after committing the first case, this accomplice will not want to cooperate with this despicable and cruel lunatic again."
"We still can't come to a conclusion with such an inference!" said the police officer. "Why are you so concerned about the accomplice? I don't think such an inference will help the case, Mr. Quinn."
Ellery was not expressing any opinion. For him, he felt that inferring whether there was accomplice was a matter of course and absolutely important.
Esham anxiously paced back and forth on the floor between the two brothers: "Listen!" He said as if he couldn't bear it, "Anyway, we can't be discouraged. It's impossible for a man to disappear for no reason. As for the appearance of that person, we should have a better understanding. Although you two can't be sure of his current build and appearance, don't you have other characteristics? - Have you ever seen him since childhood? What about the features that haven't changed?"
"Lame!" Pang replied.
"This has been said before," Megara said. "Kloshak suffered from a mild leg problem when he was a child. Although he was not disabled, his left foot became lame."
"Is that a permanent disease?" Ellery asked.
Brother Tifan didn't answer.
"It's been twenty years since then, and sometimes the lameness comes back, and if that's the case, then the testimony of the garage owner Karuka may have been deliberately made by Kloshak, who probably knew that you didn't Forget that he was lame when he was a child, so as Professor Yadoli said, he may have deliberately pretended to be lame to mislead us in the direction of our investigation. Of course, this assumes that his lameness has healed."
"And on the contrary," Bonn went on, "the lameness may be true. Why should Mr. Quinn find fault with the clues we have found?"
"Never mind!" Ellery backed down softly. "Closhak's lame, officer, is that better? But, oh! Yes, I see, he may not be lame, but he'll always be lame." appear in front of others."
"We've wasted too much time." Bonn said bluntly, "Only one thing is true, the two of you need to be fully protected now, Mr. Pang, now you go back to Arroyo immediately and try not to move Sensual, I will send about half a dozen people to protect you, send you back to West Virginia, and ask them to protect you from now on."
"Oh! That's terrible!" screamed Ellery. "Sir, what are you talking about, and this just happened to be tricked by Croshak. So far our plan has been successful, Crowe. Although Shaq knows that Andrea is still alive, I'm sure he doesn't know where Andrea is, but as long as we focus on Andrea Tivar, then, Closha Croshak is still watching—in fact, he must be watching, and Croshak will notice it soon."
"Well, so what do you want to do?" Bonn said challengingly.
"We should send Mr. Pang back to the hut on the mountain as quietly as possible. Don't have too many people, one person is enough, officer. If you want to use more people, you can also use a company! Also, don't send people to protect him on the mountain." He, as long as he keeps pretending to be Grandpa Peter, he's safe, and it's better not to be too obvious."
"Then what about Mr. Megara? Um...Mr. Megara, um..." Esham didn't know which name should be more appropriate.
"Do you ignore it here?"
"No! No!" Ellery yelled, "Although Kloshak had already expected that there would be protection, we still want to protect, no matter how public the protection is."
While others discussed the fate of the two brothers, they were silent, and the two men peeked into each other's faces, Megara's expression becoming more serious, while the elementary school principal blinked repeatedly or paced back and forth.
"Before you two brothers leave, do you have anything to say?" Esham asked, "Now time is running out, please grasp it."
"I've been thinking, I don't want to go back to West Virginia, I think Kloshak..." His voice trembled, "I want to leave this cursed country as soon as possible, away from Kloshak."
"No!" Ellery said decisively, "If Kloshak suddenly suspects that Grandpa Peter is you, and you give up playing Grandpa Peter, it will be like giving him clues to chase you, and we will set up a strict police watch. At the net, you must play Grandpa Peter until Croshak recognizes that Grandpa Peter is you in disguise."
"No! I thought about it," Pang said, licking his dry lips, "I'm not very rich, maybe you think I'm a coward, but in the past years, I have been living under the shadow of the devil." He was strange His eyes lit up, "I don't want the sum of money left to me by my elder brother Blatter, I just want to go abroad..." Because of the contradictions in what he said, everyone present lost their composure.
"No! Andorea!" Megara said solemnly, "If you want to go abroad, I will pay you first. You should know that no matter where you go, you will need it."
"How much is that?" Bonn asked suspiciously.
"It's just a small amount of money." Megara's eyes became more serious, "It's five thousand dollars, Thomas can only come up with so much money, but you also know that Montenegro, an ancient country, is very concerned about inheritance. Inheritance is very strict, and I myself..."
"Is Bratt the eldest son?" Ersham asked.
"No! It's me, but Andorea, I'll give it to you first."
"About this point, you two should discuss it!" Bonn said, "But Mr. Pang, you must not go far away, because Mr. Quinn is right."
The primary school principal's face turned pale: "If you think that guy doesn't know..."
"How do you know?" Bonn said anxiously. "If you think it's better to do this, then you let Mr. Megara advance the money first! Take the money back, so that if you want to hide suddenly Not to be penniless, that's the best we can do right now."
"If you combine it with the savings I put in the hut." Pang said to himself, "this will become a very large amount, so you don't have to worry about where you go...Okay! I'll go back to Arroyo, Steve Wen - thank you."
"Your money may not be enough," said the owner, "if I give you ten thousand..."
"No!" said the primary school principal, shrugging. "I only want my share. You know I've always relied on my own strength."
Megara got up from the bed as if under pressure, walked to the table, and picked up the pen.Andrea Tever walked up and down the house, eager to leave because the future path had been decided.Stephen Megara stood up with the check in his hand.
"Andorea, you have to wait until tomorrow morning!" he said, "I have to go and change it into cash in person, so you can take the cash back to West Virginia directly."
Pang looked around quickly and said, "Now I have to go. Where should I spend the night? Police officer."
"I'll have those police guard you until tomorrow morning."
The two brothers looked at each other.
"Be careful! Andorea!"
"The same to you!"
The eyes of the two met and they stopped moving. There seemed to be an invisible obstacle in the eyes of the two. Megara looked away, while the principal of the elementary school walked towards the door dejectedly.
The group returned to land, and Andrea disappeared among a group of criminal police officers. Ellery said to the district attorney: "Mr. Ersham, have you noticed one thing-no, I think you have noticed Now, it seems superfluous for me to ask this question, Stephen Megara is explaining the escape from Montenegro, why did you have a very surprised expression on your face?"
"Because isn't that boring? No matter if it's a feud or something, it's impossible for such a thing to happen. Don't you think it's outrageous? Just because a child said something impulsively, three big men left their homes, Change your name and change your name to escape here."
"You're right!" Ellery said, taking a breath of the air in the pine forest comfortably, "I wonder too! Officer Bonn, why didn't you arrest two people for perjury?"
Officer Bonn snorted through his nose: "So I firmly believe that although Kloshak's story is true, there must be a more serious hidden reason for them to leave their country than the fear of revenge for an eleven-year-old child. "
"What do you mean? Quinn." Professor Adori asked, "I don't understand—"
"No, this matter is very clear! As Mr. Ersham said, why do the three big men have to go to other countries incognito?"
"Hiding the police!" Bonn said to himself.
"Yes! They fled because they had to. There must be something more pressing than the vengeance of the young man Croshak pressing them. If I were you, officer, I would go abroad to investigate this matter."
"Telegraph to Yugoslavia!" said the police officer. "Yes! That's a very good idea. I'll do it tonight."
"Teacher," Ellery said leisurely to the professor, "life is still full of wonderful mischief. Although they escape from the immediate danger, how do they know that they will not be caught by the hidden danger twenty years later?"
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