Wine and Gun

Hunter did a quick mental calculation that Herstal had left White Oak a year after the murder, which was 1988—that is, 1987 when the murder happened. This happened to be thirty years ago, which subtly coincided with the time when Slade came to Westland. Could it have something to do with that old case?

Hunter thought he couldn't ignore this coincidence of time, so he looked very interested and asked, "What kind of thing is that?"

"Two people were killed," Brown Bear described, "I remember hearing my father describe the case, two people were killed, one was an aide in the church, and the other was a zealous member of the church. , a kind man. I remember that it was a Sunday night when there was more than one priest in the church, but the priest and other deacons who lived in the church heard nothing, and when they woke up the next morning they found Two bodies were hanging in the church hall, just in front of the cross - I was young at the time and didn't see the scene, but just think about how horrible it was!"

"And then? Has the murderer caught it?" Hunter swallowed silently and asked.

"No, the police themselves may be confused." The townsman smiled, threw the spoon back to the plate in front of him, and stretched out comfortably, "But I heard that after this case happened, there was a man in the church. The priest is missing - the morning they found the body, there was no one in the priest's room, and the police may not know if something happened to the priest, or if he was the murderer. Town police The bureau also wanted the priest for a while, but no one was caught."

There was no more valuable story to ask from "Brown Bear", and Hunter, holding the half loaf of bread he didn't eat, couldn't help but ponder: There is some hidden connection between these many coincidences , the cross in the drawer of Slade, the amazingly many pictures of the choir children in the priest's office, the deacon and the parishioners who died thirty years ago... Speaking of which, Father Johnson said those old pictures were a love of photography. was taken by the acolyte, and that aide has already died. So, is the aide who died in the murder case the same aide who took those photos? !

A priest who disappeared thirty years ago. The Slade that appeared in Westland thirty years ago.

- There can be no connection between these coincidences.

Hunter gāngān swallowed, the bread sliding down his throat like grit.

He had an investigation direction in his mind, but his intuition told him that the final result of his investigation would not be the one he liked.

Albarino saw Herstal for the second time—not strictly speaking, "seeing."

It was noon on the second day of the trial. After the morning trial, he was dragged out to eat by Hardy and Bates sitting in the gallery. Wallis was still busy, so he was not with them.

As they sat in the dining room, Bates was still chattering a little excitedly: "...this will definitely crucify Slade, and the test report shows that the weapon that injured the child was the sculpture in Stryder's office. , I don't think he can explain why that sculpture was in his office—"

Hardy showed a cautious optimism. Obviously, as a police officer in charge of investigating murders, he had fought with Herstal many times on different occasions, and had seen many Herstal as the accused. Incredible scene of people turning over.

It was at this moment that Albarino's cell phone rang.

The restaurant was too noisy, and Albarino walked outside the glass door with his mobile phone in hand before answering the call. It didn't rain any more that day, but there were thick lead-gray clouds piled up under the sky, and Albarino just watched the faint skylight emerging from the edge of the broken clouds, and listened to Herstal's voice from his mobile phone. It rang in the middle.

Herstal's first sentence—the only one—was this way, when he said: "After the court session this afternoon, I will charge you with a criminal record of falsifying evidence."

When he heard him say that, Albarino was actually a little stunned.

But he quickly remembered where the topic came from: after the Westerland pianist broke into his house at midnight, he was in the hospital; Herstal had asked him when he visited him in the hospital: "So Did you take a bribe, Doctor Bucks?"

How did he answer at that time?

"If... I can do it easily and avoid punishment, why not do it?"

Of course, the person he faced was Herstal, and Herstal would never give up investigating any detail he revealed. He hasn't done this kind of thing in a particularly big case, but a careful investigation will definitely lead to similar allegations... He lives in Westland, and he needs to sell some favors to many people, so as to ensure "life" "It's been smooth sailing.

Otherwise, if he was only a forensic doctor of the Forensic Medicine Bureau, how could he possibly know the way to smuggle them into Mexico? How can a Sunday gardener get those fake license plates? How can there be a police officer in the police station to help him find some information that he does not have permission to access?

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