Guidebook for the Dark Duke

Regardless of the relationship between Evan and Duke Bruce, Sheriff Chandler still focused his investigation on the new Miss Catherine without hesitation.

Miss Catherine is a real lady, and her father is the son of an earl, who is now serving in the House of Lords. From this point of view, her background is much better than that of Alia, the doctor's daughter.

Miss Catherine lives in the Drence Hotel in Delanele, which is located on the seaside of Delanele, and the scenery is very beautiful. Sheriff Chandler is unwilling to face this noble lady alone, so he will live and die. Go with Evan.

Evan was a little bit dumbfounded. Since he got to know Sheriff Chandler, his own job has been ranked behind instead. Clerk George looked at Evan almost sadly.

"Good boy." Chandler patted George on the shoulder: "You can just lend me this good pastor for a while, these ledgers, I will do it later, you know, what I am doing now is related to the whole Big business at Delaney."

George had no room to speak in front of Sheriff Chandler. He was not as authoritative as Mrs. Sanders, so he could only nod with a bitter face in the end.

Sergeant Chandler and Evan arrived at the Durance Hotel in a carriage. The Durance is a newly opened hotel in Delan Leer. It is gorgeously decorated, beautiful and comfortable, and it is the best hotel in the entire Delan Lear.

Sheriff Chandler asked Miss Catherine's room number from the hotel manager, and then went straight to Catherine's room. For Sheriff Chandler, this was probably his last chance to prove his reasoning.

When Sergeant Chandler knocked on Catherine's door, Catherine had a very surprised expression on her face.

"Mr. Sheriff? Pastor Bruce? You... what's the matter?" Catherine hesitated on her beautiful face.

Evan smiled and said nothing, and Sheriff Chandler could only say, "We want to ask you about John."

A complex look flashed across Catherine's face, neither sad nor resentful.

"Please come in." Catherine stepped aside, allowing Evan and the sheriff to walk in.

Miss Catherine's room is the best in Durham, with three luxurious and exquisite suites, not like a hotel, but like a well-decorated apartment.

Miss Catherine invited Evan and the sheriff to sit down, and poured tea for the two of them herself. The mellow black tea leaves a lingering aftertaste on the tongue.

"Miss Catherine." Sergeant Chandler didn't appreciate the black tea, and immediately said after taking a sip, "I heard that you have a very close relationship with John, do you know anything about his situation? "

When Catherine heard this sentence, anger suddenly appeared in her eyes: "I don't know where you heard the rumors, John and I are just friends, and I came to his funeral this time to try my best. A friend's duty."

Sheriff Chandler looked sharp: "Miss Catherine, I advise you not to lie to me. You must know that I am a policeman. You should stop struggling with some things."

Catherine glanced at Sergeant Chandler with almost resentment, she gently kissed her lower lip, her hands trembling slightly: "Since you already know, and asked me why, John rejected my engagement, Do you still expect me to be close to him?"

"Since you hate him so much, why did you come to his funeral?" Sergeant Chandler quickly caught the loophole in Miss Catherine's words.

Miss Catherine finally couldn't help but collapsed. She stood up abruptly and turned around. With trembling fingers, she took out a cigarette and lit it.

Sheriff Chandler is an old-fashioned guy, and he was stunned to see this scene.

When Miss Catherine turned around, she was already in tears.

"Okay, since you want to ask me why, then I'll tell you." Miss Catherine raised her hand and wiped the tears on her face rudely: "Because I love him! I love him! Are you satisfied!" She Almost hysterically shouted at Sheriff Chandler.

"I've known him since he was at Cambridge and it's an insult to me that he would rather be with a doctor's daughter out of nowhere! I'll never forgive him! "Catherine's fingers were trembling and she could hardly hold the cigarette, and the expression on her face was slightly ferocious.

Sergeant Chandler was stunned for a moment. He never knew that these gentle and noble ladies on the surface actually had such a side.

"You... don't get excited, I can understand your feelings, but Mr. John is dead now, don't you have anything to say?" After a long silence, Sergeant Chandler finally said in an embarrassing tone .

Catherine finally calmed down at this moment, she put out the trembling cigarette butt in the ashtray, and sat down with her arms folded.

"What do you want to ask? Just say it." Catherine looked away and said coldly.

Sheriff Chandler looked back at Evan. Evan lowered his head and did not speak. Sheriff Chandler had no choice but to continue: "Do you know what happened to Mr. John? What happened to his depravity? What?"

Speaking of this, Miss Catherine's face twitched for a moment, but she immediately calmed down again: "I don't know what you are talking about."

Sergeant Chandler was a little irritable for a while: "Miss Catherine, I remind you not to go around in circles with me. Otherwise, I can invite you to the police station as a guest no matter who your father is."

Catherine's eyes widened for a moment: "You can't do this to me! It's all his fault! If he didn't humiliate me like that! I wouldn't do that either!"

Miss Catherine obviously misunderstood Sergeant Chandler's words, and Sergeant Chandler's eyes lit up, and he said immediately: "I don't care about this kind of thing. Now that Mr. John is dead, my task is to catch the criminal. Miss Catherine, you are a lady, you don't want to go to prison, do you?"

Catherine's expression suddenly became painful. She lowered her head and put her hands on her forehead. After a long silence, she finally said, "I'll tell you everything I know, but John's death really has nothing to do with me."

Sheriff Chandler was overjoyed, but his face was serious: "That depends on what you are talking about."

"You will be satisfied." Catherine raised her head and said dryly: "John rejected my father's proposal. I was very annoyed. I ran to ask him, but he said that he liked Alia. Such a result I couldn't accept it, so I asked someone to lure him into marrying an opium den, and he... got addicted to opium."

"What!" Sheriff Chandler almost jumped up in surprise: "Little John has been infected with opium! This is impossible, the Lawrences will kill him!"

Speaking of which, Sergeant Chandler shut his mouth as if he had been strangled. He looked at Evan almost in horror, with a serious expression on his face, and Evan was also surprised. Unexpectedly, Sergeant Chandler really guessed a part of it. This Miss Catherine is really not a good person.

"Don't you know?" Catherine looked at Sheriff Chandler with some doubts.

The sheriff laughed dryly: "I only know that John has the possibility of falling, but I don't know that he..."

At this time, Catherine finally realized that Sheriff Chandler had bombed her before, but it was too late to say anything now, so she could only look at Sheriff Chandler with some annoyance: "You are really not an honest person!"

At this time, Chandler looked very solemn: "I am trying to catch the prisoner who is still John Jr. Is there anything wrong with telling some white lies? But you, you are doing this to ruin John's life, can you just say that?" Is it noble?"

Catherine's expression was a little stiff, but her eyes were full of stubbornness: "He ruined my life, and I'm going to ruin his! Because of him, my social circle in London has become a joke. Doesn't he need to be responsible? !"

Sheriff Chandler couldn't help but sighed, some things were really unclear to outsiders.

Finally, after Chandler and Evan said goodbye to Miss Catherine, they left the Drens Hotel.

Chandler's face was a bit serious, he quickly took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a deep puff, and said: "I was really suffocated just now."

Evan stood calmly at the wind, and said in a deep voice, "What do you think of this Miss Catherine?"

Sheriff Chandler sighed: "This lady is really amazing, Little John just rejected the marriage proposal, and she would be so cruel, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence... Sigh!" Sheriff Chandler sighed again .

Evan lowered his head and fiddled with his cuffs, and said in a low voice: "Now you should believe what I said, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, the suspects are the biggest now. You should overcome your inherent impression of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence and investigate this matter objectively. thing."

Sheriff Chandler threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, looking a little sad: "I see, Pastor Bruce, I was too subjective before, thank you for your help."

Evan patted Sheriff Chandler on the shoulder with a smile, and didn't say much.

Sheriff Chandler sent Evan back to the church. Clerk George was waiting anxiously at the door. When he saw Evan coming back, he rushed to greet him.

"Pastor Bruce, Mrs. Laurence is here."

Both Evan and Sheriff Chandler, who was saying goodbye to him, froze for a moment.

"What's the matter with her?" Evan asked hesitantly.

"She... seems to be asking you to expel the Hester family from the parish..." George promised.

"Nonsense!" Evan said angrily.He didn't expect Mrs. Lawrence to be so unreasonable.

"Doctor Hester and Miss Alia are devout believers, how can I expel believers of God!"

As soon as Evan finished speaking, Mrs. Lawrence came out from the inside: "Pastor Bruce, John is dead. It's all Alia's fault. I must make him pay the price!"

"It's all the murderer's fault, how can you blame Miss Alia?" Sergeant Chandler told the truth.

Mrs. Laurence's face was flushed, and she could not speak a word.