Dean Charles put down the phone in his hand and silently picked up the other phone on the table. After dialing a few times, he said O'Hara's name to the other party. Not long after, Butler Scott knocked on the door and walked away.
He came in, put a file bag in his hand on the table, and walked out of the room.
Slowly opening the file bag is like opening a dusty memory. A stack of paper documents is held in his hand, reminding him of his name that has appeared in the past.
Ralph on the other end of the phone was holding a silent microphone in his hand. Combined with the unclear words that came out of the receiver just now, he vaguely guessed what Dean Charles was doing now. I believe that after this time, the other party can deepen his understanding of Algernon.
The impression of this name!
O'Hara, a college-level figure, even though he has become a bald man now, he used to have a short haircut in the military academy, coupled with his strong body, and the training clothes with the color of autumn leaves, he looks more energetic and capable.
Complete.
Dean Charles knows about him. It should be said that it is not just O'Hara, but anyone who has excellent academic performance, outstanding performance, and talents or talents that are different from ordinary people in the college will be remembered by him as the dean of the college.
Recommend talents among them and recommend them to serve in different departments of the military based on their performance in the academy.
O'Hara is not the best, but he is the most eye-catching.
Translators, or military translators, have the same language advantages as full-time translators in government departments. This alone is not easy.
You must know that O'Hara did not come from a good family. He was not from a wealthy family, but was an orphan who was ruthlessly abandoned. And the four languages he mastered, except pure English, were influenced by most of the teachers in their orphanage.
The other three languages he learned over time were all learned at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, which shows his strong language learning ability, among which Chinese is one of the most difficult languages to learn in the world.
It is difficult for such a student not to be famous or attract attention in the military academy of this era. And his mysterious disappearance also caused a storm of controversy in the academy at that time, both from the academy and the students.
There were endless speculations and all kinds of things, but no matter what, O'Hara never came back.
Everything has a reason, just like the Buddhist theory of cause and effect. The hospital conducted a rigorous investigation into O'Hara's life experience and experiences. There is no airtight wall in the world, and there is no eternal secret.
This matter was investigated from an official perspective, but the information received was indeed that O'Hara was involved in a homicide, and the local police department refused to disclose more details.
The military academy was extremely angry at losing such a capable trainee without even finding a reason. However, the local police had the right not to disclose the specific case. For this kind of thing, the academy found a private detective to find out the truth. At the same time, Charles
The dean found out about this and found Ralph to investigate secretly.
Ralph was professional and worthy of being a veteran in this industry for so many years. Dean Charles told the other party that evening that accurate news had been sent to the manor the next afternoon. In terms of the speed of the investigation,
No worse than those so-called full-time intelligence personnel, and sometimes even faster.
The story begins when O'Hara returns to his hometown, St. Vis, a small city in the UK. The total population of the city is less than 2,000, which is still the largest population. Although the town has a small population, it can
It is very famous in the UK. The famous Royal St. Vitus Church is built here. Whenever festivals come, this place will be very lively. It is like a pilgrimage. People come here to pray, pray for the praise of the Lord and repent of their sins.
The city of St. Vis is small and has a small population, but even though it is small, it has all the internal organs. Welfare homes and orphanages have corresponding facilities. The Orphanage of St. Vis was established in 1830. The eldest son of the chief executive of St. Vis at that time opened it after he returned from a study tour.
Time passed many years later, when the chief executive's youngest son inherited his father's legacy and became the new consul, and he intensified his efforts to maintain the orphanage.
The St. Vis Orphanage has a history of nearly a hundred years. During this period, there were three consecutive directors. The first one was the eldest son of the chief executive. After that, the orphanage changed hands several times and fell to the former director Henry. Henry regarded all the orphans as children.
Looking at his own children, O'Hara is the one who receives the most love. His autism as a child prevented him from playing with other children. It was Henry who helped him get closer to his friends.
In O'Hara's heart, Dean Henry is like Jesus who sacrifices himself for others and devotes his life to the children in the orphanage. However, perhaps due to his age, the nearly 80-year-old dean has not been able to teach as much as he has in recent years.
When O'Hara and others arrived, the deputy director Andre was elected locally in St. Vis. He had been in the orphanage for more than ten years. Director Henry, whose health was deteriorating, gradually handed over the work in the orphanage.
To Andre, which also led to the subsequent tragedy.
Andre is in his forties this year. He came to St. Vis Orphanage and worked diligently. His performance was not very good, but he was quite satisfactory. Maybe time can really change a person, or it can show a person's sincerity.
More than ten years of work have made Andre feel "repetition" day after day. Yes, "repetition" is like being trapped in an infinite reincarnation. It is still the same life, but he still remembers it.
After a long time, maybe he became numb, and Andre no longer cared about it, but not long ago, his only son smoked marijuana. In order to fear that his father Andre would find out, he kept borrowing money from outside, but he was in debt for a long time.
If he didn't pay back, he was eventually arrested by the debtor. When Andre found out about it, he dispersed all his property, but he was still short of a lot of money. He borrowed money to pay off the debt, but his son's smoking of marijuana was reported to the local police.
People spread the word and no one was lending them money.
Andre originally wanted to borrow money from Dean Henry, but after years of excessive expenditure and low income, almost all of Dean Henry's money had been consumed.
Dean Henry is not a nouveau riche, let alone a rich man with huge assets, but a down-and-out businessman. The reason why he wanted to take over the orphanage was because of his deceased wife. Dean Henry once had a child, but unfortunately he died of an illness.
Since then, my wife has often rescued some orphans. Her biggest wish is to open an orphanage. After her late wife left, in order to commemorate her and because she was tired from many years of doing business, she came to the city of Saint Vis and bought the Saint Vis.
Orphanage
of ownership.
One thing to mention here is that the reason why the St. Vis Orphanage has existed for so many years and is still not old is because the descendants of the administrator at that time are still local nobles, and they also have the lowest title of baronet, in compliance with the wishes of their ancestors.
Even if the family no longer runs the orphanage, it still ensures its existence. This is the biggest reason why the orphanage has existed for so many years.
Money is indispensable at any time and in any place. It is an "indispensable existence" that makes people obsessed. This is how Andre was changed. A creditor came up with the idea of selling orphans to make up for the surplus.
The debt hole.
Andre was struggling in his heart at first, but when he saw the creditors constantly coming to press for debts, he succumbed to reality. Andre didn't know what the other party wanted these orphans for, he only knew that the other party was willing to spend a lot of money to buy these orphans.
And you can pay off the debt yourself.
But not just any orphan, but a child with good health and good looks. The creditor would bring several men in cloaks with him every time to select the child while it was dark, and the children who were also selected would be
Vice President Andre sent him away in various names, or simply said that he died of illness and there would be no further investigation.
Through that creditor, Andre sold the orphans quietly. From the beginning to the end, Andre had no idea where the orphans were. The only thing he knew was that the debt owed by his son had been paid off.
, and he also returned to his previous financial situation due to selling orphans, and even made a small profit.
Of course, some people will ask how it is possible that there are so many orphans in the orphanage for Andre to sell?
Although the city of Saint Vis is small, it is the only city with an orphanage within nearly a thousand kilometers around it. Although those big cities are large, no one has invested in the construction of orphanages. Of course, they have existed before, but as the tide of history moves forward,
time, they were all crushed!
During the Cold War, not long after the war, many cities and villages were destroyed, and more families persecuted by the war were left behind, as if to prove the existence of this war. Parents lost their children, wives lost their husbands,
Children have lost their parents, and all of these are the "sequelae" left over from the war.
It is precisely because of the existence of these "sequelae" that in order to calm the haze left in people's hearts, the country has subsidized and expanded the construction of orphanages, welfare homes, and hospitals that existed in major cities. For cities that do not have them, geographical considerations
Carry out urban construction accordingly according to the environment and surrounding conditions.
St. Vis Orphanage was also invested and built by the government. Orphans from many surrounding towns were sent here. This made the orphanage here have the largest number of people since its establishment. St. Vis Orphanage also opened branches.
It is true that the expansion of the old orphanage has affected the surrounding environment, so another branch can only be opened to accommodate more orphans.
Andre initially sold orphans to pay off debts, and then was tempted by money. From cautiously selling orphans secretly, to becoming more and more bold in stealing and selling orphans during the day. As time goes by, someone will always notice it, just like that
As the old saying goes, "There is no impermeable wall in the world, and there is no eternal secret."