Mary's Nineteenth Century

No matter what Theon thinks of the sting operation, if he hadn't tried to steal the sheet music, he wouldn't have been caught. 21 Now, he was captured on the spot and pointed at with a gun, and he did not dare to continue his previous arbitrariness.

"What exactly do you want?"

Theon took a step forward and said quite innocently, "I just came to this unoccupied room to look at the music score. That Fanny's death has nothing to do with me."

Stealing sheet music, you can recognize it;

It is absolutely impossible to admit that you have not done murder and dumped corpses.

Listening to Theon's tone, the captain felt that this man was still daring to be justified, so he jumped up in a fit of anger.

"You said that if you didn't kill, you didn't kill? Which innocent and good person would enter other people's rooms through the window uninvited at three or four in the morning? Yes, no one lives here at night, because old Lucas went to other rooms Live overnight with someone."

The captain glared at Theon, "Why did you spend the first-class ticket, but you have to share a room with others? Don't you have any points in your mind? Isn't it because someone made a rumor that the Diamond was invaded by an evil mermaid! "

At this moment, the captain can basically confirm that the reasoning of the previous investigation is correct.

Someone murdered Fanny, and someone else deliberately concealed the truth and used the murder to create panic.Theon is the one who creates the panic, fishes because of the muddy water.

The captain deduced in a few words, "Theon, you said that it had nothing to do with Fanny's death, how do you explain the big fish scales in her socks? Today, we are here to catch you, I have enough reasons without your consent, Go and search your cabin and boarding luggage thoroughly. You're carrying more than just a fish scale, come to think of it."

Why not just one fish scale?

Both Mary and Mycroft speculated that Theon deliberately spread the panic that the mermaid's revenge would come true, and it was a plan to start a serial case.As for how many victims there will be in the serial case, it depends on when Theon can find what he wants on the cruise ship.

Theon heard the inference that was almost the same as his plan, and could no longer hold back his pale face.

"Okay, let me say. It was the American pastor Vincent who killed Fanny. The time was the early morning of the day you found the body, and it was about this time, 3:45."

Rewind time to November [-]th.

In the early hours of the morning, most people fell asleep.

Theon took the special thin rope of whalebone and started to spy on the whole ship.

He has rich experience in whaling, and he is very good at going to sea and climbing a boat.On that day, we had to get acquainted with the environment and find out the external climbing path of the "Diamond".

"Nor did I expect to witness a murder."

Theon said that everything was an accident. He crawled outside the cabin and heard the sound of a heavy object falling into the water.Looking around, I found someone by the window of the supposedly vacant guest room on the second floor.

"It was dark at that time, and there were only a few sporadic lights on the first floor of the cruise ship. I didn't see the specific situation of the windows on the second floor."

The room was not lit, but there were lights in the hallway.

Theon immediately climbed to the corridor window on the second floor, and saw Vincent running to another room in a hurry. "Afterwards, I jumped into the water to see what had fallen into the water. I found that the back of Fanny's head had hit the metal outer ring of the cabin. Unfortunately, she had become a corpse."

Then, Theon dragged Fanny's body and sneaked into the bottom of the boat.

The toughness of human hair is very good, so he used Fanny's long hair to tie it to the bottom of the boat, and put fish scales in her socks.

"You see, I didn't deliberately conceal Fanny's death, or else I would have let her body sink."

Theon did not forget to defend himself, "I borrowed the corpse for a little use. The reason, you have already guessed, is just to take a look at the score. I am just a pure music lover, nothing more."

"Finished?"

Mary looked at Theon's face and explained everything, but which fool would believe that climbing a boat in the middle of the night to hide the body was just for the music score?

"Mr. Theon, you should know that we will confront Pastor Vincent later. Do you think he will admit that he killed someone? Who can prove that Miss Fanny has lost her vital signs when you pick her up?"

"Don't spout blood!"

Theon was in a hurry. No matter what his original plan was, it was impossible to admit that he had killed someone now. "Fanny was pushed out of the window by Vincent. She was unlucky and her head was smashed. What does her death have to do with me?"

Doesn't matter?

who believes.

Taking a step back, Vincent murdered Fanny, and Theon deliberately concealed and used the corpse. Isn't it a crime to do so?

Not long after, Pastor Vincent was also 'invited' to come.

Vincent couldn't deny the fact that he pushed Fanny into the water.

Because Theon pointed out in detail where he hid the key of Fanny's safe now, and it was placed in the "Bible" that he carried with him since yesterday.

"You spy on me!"

Vincent felt extremely cold. He changed the hiding place where the key was hidden several times in the past few days, but Sean gave the latest location accurately.

At this moment, both Mary and Mycroft were sincerely grateful that they had developed the good habit of pulling the curtains in order to keep the secret of cross-dressing.

As a normal person, who would have thought that going out to sea and taking a boat would encounter a shadow crawling outside the cruise ship in the middle of the night.

However, Xi En plausibly said, "I'm spying on you to find more evidence of your murder, so there's nothing wrong with that."

really?

Everyone present was skeptical.

Didn't Theon want to cheat and steal the key after completing his plan?

There can be an assumption that since Theon made a lie about letting the mermaid get revenge, he originally wanted to kill a few more people, including robbing first and then removing Vincent.

Anyway, all the murders in the end can be pushed to the script and the evil spirits come true.

However, according to the current situation, Theon will not confess his original plan.After all, the sentencing of stealing and hiding corpses is not at the same level as murder.

The captain took a deep breath and turned to look at Vincent. "Tell me, what happened in the early morning? Why did you kill Miss Fanny? Was it murder for money?"

"No, I didn't mean to."

Vincent, no, his real name is David.

Reverend Vincent, who is actually David the lawyer, tells the story of the case.

The whole process is almost the same as Mary and Mycroft's conjectures, and the lawyer David secretly fell in love with Miss Fanny.

The relationship between the two concealed from others, and David gave high-sounding reasons.

At that time, Fanny had to take care of the dying old Mrs. Daisy.

While taking care of a seriously ill relative, a young girl sparks a love affair with a foreign man, which is not illegal but always somewhat tarnishes the girl's reputation.

David used this to convince Fanny that it would be better to wait to announce the love affair to the public.

On this trip, Fanny went to the Bank of America to collect all her inheritance, and he would secretly accompany her, and Fanny's maid would not be aware of it.

Fanny agreed.

Why don't you agree, David is so caring, and I have to admit that this kind of underground relationship gives people the thrill of cheating.

"In the early hours of that day, we made an appointment for a private meeting in an empty room. I knew some lockpicking skills, and it was easy to get in the door."

David recalled in a trance, "I didn't want to kill her at first, but we all stood at the window. I saw the safe key on Fanny's neck, which represented [-] pounds, which is a lot of money!"

At first, David only imagined that Fanny would marry to the United States after receiving the inheritance.

Fanny had no relatives in England, and America was even more unfamiliar to her.After the two get married, it is not up to her husband to decide how to use the inheritance left by Mrs. Daisy.

The day's private meeting was drawing to a close, but something happened.

At that time, David and Fanny had cleaned up the traces of the two entering the room, and were about to close the half-open window and leave.

"Before leaving, Fanny casually shared some ideas that she hadn't had before. She said that it was her first time to go to sea on the "Diamond", and she suddenly found that it felt great to go out of the UK and travel around the world. It might be good if she could travel around the world. "

At that point, David's heart sank because he knew how much it cost to travel the world comfortably.Even if there is an inheritance of [-] pounds, the money is not inexhaustible, and it is completely different from his plan for the inheritance.

It's a coincidence, a difference of one thought.

When David hugged Fanny by the window, he took off the key chain around her neck and pushed the defenseless Fanny into the water. "I regret it! Fanny can't swim, and she will call for help if she falls into the sea."

However, there were no cries for help.

David stood stupidly by the window for an unknown period of time, but he didn't hear the cry for help.

He quickly cleaned all traces of the window frame and the room.

At that time, almost all professional knowledge of lawyers was mobilized.Because of the criminal cases he has been in contact with, he knows very well what details to pay attention to.

After that, David hurried back to his room, but he didn't expect that the sailors fished out Fanny's body from the bottom of the boat at noon.

"That's unreasonable. The body should have sunk to the bottom of the sea. I was paying attention to the movement on the ship and overheard the troupe members talking about the script coming true."

Then, armed conflict broke out between the passengers and the troupe.

David also wanted to read the script carefully, fearing that Fanny would use the power of evil spirits to seek revenge from him, so he wanted to find ways to avoid possible death traps.

It never occurred to him that what he did had been peeped and watched by Theon.

Inside, it was quiet.

What else can I say?

Is it ironic that Fanny's love lost to David's greed?Or is it ironic that Theon used the corpse instead of concealing the crime for his own sake?

No, it's not necessary.

Mary and Mycroft went back to their rooms without saying a word.

The murder has already happened, and the whole story of the case is clear. Whether the prisoner repents or not, the established facts cannot be changed.

The voyage after the "Diamond" was exceptionally smooth.

Arriving in the United States, Captain Bolton took charge of the follow-up events such as disposing of Fanny's body and bringing the two criminals to trial.

He also made a lot of efforts to get the court to convict David and Theon, the reason is simply to fight for one breath, who told those two guys almost ruined the Diamond's reputation.

The final sentencing is up to the judge.

The American judicial system in 1869, don't expect it to be so notarized.

After falling into the sea, Fanny injured the back of her head. Did she die on the spot?

Is Sean desperate to save him? Why did he have to go to such lengths to steal the score on the "Diamond"?

These doubts will become the key to sentencing.

late november.

A week or so after Mary's arrival in the United States, she was ready to leave for Boston, Massachusetts, when Bentley had signed a large order from the New York stock ticker.

Don't forget that the purpose of coming to the United States is to realize the identity of "Mark Minton".

As for the strange cases encountered by chance on the cruise ship, and Mrs. Roman encountered by chance on the cruise ship, I will take those left in the wind of New York Harbor as an interesting memory.

Just as I was about to leave, I saw a recent news report.

Theon the Whale is dead.

He committed suicide by jumping off a building, his company went bankrupt, and he didn't want to be locked up in jail for a while.

At the same time, two anonymous letters were sent to the hotels where Mary and Mycroft were staying.

"A code word: diamond number, 4, #.

'#', I thought it represented the transposition symbol in the stave, so I looked for the secret of the score on the Diamond.But nothing was found, and nothing was found in the end.What exactly does that code word mean? "

This letter seems to be Lytheon's last letter.