Mary's Nineteenth Century

"You mean that my sister may have had some trouble with Hesse Steven?"

Bailey listened to speculation about the word "shaxberd" on the Ouija board, just as Shakespeare's birthday and death date were on the same day, and this date coincided with Hesse's birth and death year.

"Let me think about it, the earliest meeting between Bernie and Hesse happened ten years ago. Coincidentally, it was at Hesse's 40th birthday banquet."

Ten years ago, Benny and Melissa were under ten years old, and they gradually got to know each other at parties and became friends.

Although Hesse also invited children from various families to the birthday party, as the host of the birthday party, Hesse rarely talked with a group of children, at most he just said hello.

Mycroft points out, "Even though we don't know the exact causes of animal phobias, you should agree with a hypothesis. Assuming that Bernie was exposed to some kind of stimulus as a child, maybe that would be the source of her arachnophobia. "

Bailey understood, "You're asking when did Bernie's spider phobia start? Did it have something to do with Hesse? I'm not sure about the connection, because Bernie's first episode was at 12 years old. At the time, the parents Taking my brother and sister family on an outing, Bernie was scared silly by the spider in the corner of the hotel."

Benny lives in a wealthy family. As a girl, she does not conform to the rebellious preferences of this era. She rarely comes into contact with spiders living in dark, damp and unclean corners.It wasn't until that night out that Bernie's phobia broke out in front of her family for the first time.

At this moment, Bailey's complexion was not very good.

He knew that his sister had always been well-behaved. Although the first outbreak of phobia was during the journey, the source of the fear of spiders may have been buried long before the family members were not aware of it.Benny was either afraid or intimidated, and she didn't even dare to reveal half of it to her family when she was young.

"Did someone scare Bernie with a spider as a prank at the banquet?"

It's hard for Bailey not to speculate, "Benny is friendly with Melissa. Even after the spider phobia broke out, she didn't hate or fear the Steven family. Maybe the source of the fear has nothing to do with the Steven family. There were a few boys her own age at the party, some of whom frightened Bernie out of proportion."

Bailey felt wrong again as he spoke.He and his sister attended the banquets in those years, and there was never any farce at the banquet.

"Who threatened Benny not to tell her parents? But Benny was really scared, how could she hide her fear as a little girl?"

Mycroft reminded, "It's been ten years, Mr. Bailey, are you sure your memory is reliable? Didn't you accompany Miss Bailey during the banquet at that time?"

Bailey nodded helplessly.He was five or six years older than Bernie, and there were differences between men and women, and it was normal for him to separate activities at parties.

Assuming Bernie was really frightened, why didn't she scream for help?

There is a theory that might explain it.When a person's fear reaches its peak, the brain activates the self-protection mechanism, and instead forgets the deepest cause of fear.

Of course, the above is still speculation, and you need to find Steven's family to find out the inside story.

Melissa's fiancé, Drew Stevens, was out of New York.He is a professional explorer, mainly discovering new species of flora and fauna.According to the travel plan, he will leave for the central part of the United States in June this year, and will not return until late November.

After experiencing the Civil War, some of the rest of Steven's family emigrated to Europe, and some lived on the west coast of the United States, and they could not be contacted for a moment.

As a result, the only person who might know about Steven's family was Melissa.

"My God! How could Bernie's illness have something to do with Steven's family."

Melissa shook her head in disbelief, "In these years, I have never noticed any clues. In the past, there was no abnormal behavior when Bernie met Drew. Mr. Bailey, you can see it."

Bailey wasn't sure.Knowing people, knowing face but not knowing heart, Kenan recruited a spirit for Benny, but was tempted to jump off the building and died that night.

"Miss Melissa, I know that the beneficiary of Hesse Steven's estate is your fiancé. The relationship between their uncle and nephew should be very good, right? You should have heard something."

Melissa smiled bitterly, "The inside story? I'm Drew's fiancée, not his wife. I only know that Hesse was a priest in front of him. He didn't marry a wife and had children, and he was always kind to people. At least, he and I I didn't notice anything unusual when we met. More things..."

What's more, even if Melissa really married into Steven's family, as a niece and daughter-in-law, she might not know her uncle well.

This kind of rhetoric is reasonable.

Could it be that the only way to find out is to wait for Drew to return to New York?

But Mycroft knew that the focus was not only on Hesse.

Hesse died a long time ago, even if he had done something, the dead could not create a small hole imaging to induce Kenan to jump off the building.Therefore, there must be a living mastermind.

"excuse me."

Mycroft asked sharply, "Miss Melissa, your fiancé has inherited Mr. Hesse's estate. Is there anything strange about it?"

"no!"

Melissa answered firmly and quickly, as if she didn't need to think at all.

As soon as the words came out, she subconsciously bit her lips, lowered her gaze, and pinched her skirt with both hands.

There was silence in the room.

At this point, it's easy to see that Melissa is lying, or that she's trying to cover it up.

At first, no one thought that the word "Shakespeare" displayed on the Ouija board would point to Hesse Steven, who had been dead for several years.

There was no reason to suspect a dead person in those circumstances, and Drew Stevens wasn't in New York when it happened.

How could Melissa doubt her fiancé who has always been in a good relationship.

At this moment, she had to understand some implication.Will Drew return to New York early and create a series of troubles in the dark?

Why would a fiance kill a best friend?

Melissa froze in place, almost biting her lips to bleed, and finally raised her head and said:

"There may indeed be some weirdness in Drew's succession of Mr. Hesse's inheritance. One day, I accidentally found a sheepskin notebook in Drew's study, and he told me not to turn it over. That kind of scolding, never It never happened between us."

As mentioned earlier, Melissa was already engaged to Drew.As far as she feels, the relationship between the two has always been stable.

"The sheepskin book belongs to Mr. Hesse, and the title page has his signature. I don't understand that it's just a sheepskin notebook, and the content is in Arabic that I can't understand. Drew actually yelled at me, that's really unbelievable. "

At that time, Melissa immediately launched a cold war against Drew.

Later, Drew sued for peace for a long time, giving gifts and sweet words, saying that the parchment recorded Hesse's perception of theology, but the content was weird, and he was afraid that Melissa would be affected badly after reading it.

Is that statement true or false?

Or the answer can only be given by reading through the notes.

"I have no interest in theological research. After a period of time, Drew and I reconciled, and no one mentioned the sheepskin notebook again."

Melissa took a deep breath when she said this, reconciliation does not mean that the matter has completely changed.

She did something unexpected, "I'm not happy, why did that note make Drew so harsh on me. So, I found a chance to copy it secretly."

With the copybook, Melissa didn't dare to find a translator, for fear of revealing the secrets of Steven's family.

She tried to learn Arabic by herself, but learning a language is not as easy as going out to buy groceries.There are very few language geniuses who can achieve instant success.

"I admit that Arabic is too difficult. Learn to learn, and my anger will disappear."

Melissa bowed her head to reality, "Forget it, I can only forget it. How many people can master a new language in order to investigate a matter? I can't do it, I'm not that kind of pervert. That thing It’s over.”

Mycroft: Smile.

He was not unintentionally connoted as a pervert.

"Miss Melissa, so you still have the notebook you copied?"

Mycroft had to ask, "I know some Arabic, maybe I can read a thing or two."

"Yes, still."

Melissa borrowed the notebook without further delay.Since she chose to tell the story, there is no need to hide it. "But I very much hope it doesn't do anything to help Bernie's madness."

Once it helps, it means that Bernie's madness is really related to Steven's family.

Whether it is related or not, Mycroft will only know after seeing it.

The search at the other end also continued.

Brooklyn.

Mary continues to search for the Zarra's lair.After many days of searching unsuccessfully, a piece of valuable news finally appeared.

There are rumors that a dilapidated, unoccupied house is haunted.

A month or two ago, someone saw grimaces floating in the dilapidated house from a distance.It was a dark night, and behind the broken window, there was a grimace glowing green!

This grimace is really scary, because it is very twisted and deformed.

Sometimes they gather, sometimes they disperse, but the only thing that doesn't become is always shining.The green light is very penetrating.

Glow?

Yes, glow!

Mary immediately thought of a possibility.

The snails hate snails, will they catch batch after batch of snails and kill them when they are in a bad mood?It is to kill with a knife, or to find animals to kill each other with it.So if you find traces of the snail's existence, won't you be able to find the lair of the ear monster?

Here comes the question, how to find the murdered snail?

In fact, it is not difficult.Because the snail is not conspicuous, but its natural enemies are conspicuous.In the gloomy night, those lights reveal the answer, it's easy to guess, isn't it?

One hot tidbit, the firefly is not vegan, it eats snails.

Is the so-called wildfire created when fireflies eat snails for dinner?

Step by step, Mary walked towards the so-called haunted house.Push open the door and she can verify the answer.