Mystery: Shadow of Order

"Ah~ha~"

Seven fifteen in the morning.

Rawls yawned and got up from the bed. Morris, the personal servant on the table beside the bed, had already put a cup of brewed Marquis black tea. After sipping a few sips, he went directly to the bathroom on the second floor.

Today is Saturday, and there will be very few things to deal with in the morning, so as usual, Rawls will take a bath first.

At 8:15, after washing up, under the service of the valet Morris, Rawls changed into a lavender dressing gown and went to the restaurant downstairs to prepare breakfast: eggs, bacon, spread with jam white bread with milk.

After breakfast, the housekeeper Augst presented the ironed newspaper to Rawls according to his Saturday habit, along with this week's bills and various meeting notices for the next few days.

"Bavart's shareholding changes, and many nobles inject capital"

"The Big Seven Banks Ushered in the Biggest Change in Equity"

"The nobles intervened in the bank, what is the future fate of the bank?"

……

I flipped through several newspapers in a row, "Backlund Daily", "Backlund Post", "Tusok", "Daily Observer", all the large newspapers in Backlund had similar titles, and they were all reporting One same thing:

Under the leadership of Earl Hall, more than a dozen land nobles, including a marquis, purchased the shares of the Seven Banks of Loen and became their shareholders.

The Loen Kingdom uses centralized bill clearing to handle the transfer business between banks in the same city, but unlike its counterparts in the Republic of Intis, not all banks here can join the ranks.

The seven largest banks firmly hold this right, so they are also called clearing banks, so that other banks can only depend on them.

Although the shares acquired by these aristocrats are not many, it is enough to make them no longer need to obtain income from land rent. The most important thing is that these Conservative-leaning aristocrats have labored a nail in the financial circle of the New Party camp.

This should be one of the conditions for the Conservative Party to reconcile the conflict with the New Party this time. Rawls snapped his fingers, and the housekeeper Augst stepped forward and bowed his head:

"gentlemen."

"Go and check the latest situation of all the major companies in which Earl Hall has a stake."

"OK."

Of course, Rawls didn't want to take the opportunity to get a piece of the pie. He didn't have that much money, and even if he had money, he couldn't get in. Without a big banker like Earl Hall, how could those landed aristocrats have a stake in the seven major banks?

He believes that simply taking a stake in a bank will definitely not satisfy the Conservative Party's appetite. The only possibility is that Earl Hall has given more benefits.

Putting the newspaper down, Rawls took the bill on the side and looked at the figures. His eyebrows jumped. This week's expenditure exceeded 200 pounds, reaching an exaggerated 226 pounds, and this month's account was only That left me with a measly £73 and 9 soles.

This week, no, this month, Rawls did not hold a dance or banquet at home, but he did participate in a lot of banquets. The specifications of these banquets are far beyond Rawls's class, so all the money is spent on clothes and dresses.

For example, the price of a sapphire tie pin when Rawls attended the ball at Earl Wolf's house was about 96 pounds, nearly half of this week's expenditure, plus those custom evening dresses, leather shoes, etc., on the account. There is little money left.

There are still more than 2,000 deposits in his account, but Rawls suddenly found that if he paid for the cane on Monday, his account would be empty.

Although Alger still owes him two thousand pounds, he can't quench his thirst from afar! When he has money, he is afraid that he will sell the house.

Did Klein's attribute of a poor **** infect me?

Rawls rubbed his temples. He had to adjust the money from the office account. Otherwise, the expenses for next week might not be enough.

Forget it, let’s sell more knowledge at the Tarot meeting on Monday, think about what can be sold, and now only Audrey has the money to buy it, but she has already sold both recipes, so what else can I sell? ?

Information about major mysterious organizations? Or sell the Sequence 6 formula as well?

Shaking his head, Rawls got up and went upstairs to change his clothes. He had already paid the housekeeper Augst. It was time to see what abilities the cane he had ordered was worth the 4,000 pounds that Alger said.

Yesterday, he and Lord Philip chatted very late, and the two also initially settled on a plan and division of labor for rebuilding the Hillston Police Station. Rawls and Philip have a very clear division of labor. Rawls only comes up with ideas and Philip is in charge of implementing them. Both of them are very satisfied with this division of labor.

Originally, Rawls planned to rest at the Carlton Club, but when he thought that his first extraordinary weapon might have arrived in Pritz Harbor, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he chose to go home.

However, it takes an hour to take the steam train from Backlund to Pritz Harbor, and there is no steam train at night, so Rawls may not be able to bring his walking stick back to Backlund until dawn.

So when Rawls got home, he went directly to the Anchor Bar and asked the owner Ken Lister to help him retrieve his cane. Ken knows that he has a close relationship with Bird Mustang the "Viscount of Fear"~www.readwn.com~ and has a certain understanding of extraordinary weapons, plus his fear of becoming an extraordinary, so Rawls is not worried Problems will arise.

Counting the time, it's already past 10 o'clock, and it's enough time to go back and forth.

……

Rawls, dressed as Jeffrey Lister, went straight over the wall and entered the back wall of the bar, and knocked on Ken Lister's door.

"Squeak"

The wooden door opened a crack. Seeing that it was Rawls, Ken Lister was obviously relieved, and opened the door to signal Rawls to enter.

As soon as Rawls entered the door, Ken List wiped the sweat from his bald head and complained:

"You're finally here, why are you so late?"

Looking at Ken's sweaty bald head and already wet white shirt, Rawls touched the beard he had just glued on, and joked:

"Uncle Ken, it's rare to see you like this."

Ken glared at Rawls, walked aside, wiped his face with a damp towel, and said vaguely:

"I shouldn't have promised you yesterday to help you get this dangerous thing, take it away quickly, it's under my bed!"

Rawls smiled, walked to Ken's bed, held the bed frame with one hand, and looked down at the bottom of the bed. A black iron box about one meter was lying quietly on the ground.

He stretched out his hand and pulled the box out, put it on the wine box beside him, blew the almost non-existent dust on it, stroked the mysterious pattern engraved on it, and after touching it spiritually, he was sure that it had not been opened. Rawls was satisfied. nodded.

Ken, who was beside him, saw that Rawls put the tin box on the wine box, thinking that Rawls was about to open it, and hurried to the door:

"Jeffrey, you can't open this box with me! You take it away! Go home and see!"