[Comprehensive Classics] Detective Mary

"It was Suvarin who planned to ambush us," Harvey reporter emphasized his point of view. "We should confront him."

Franz Harvey, who has always been informal, met Mary several times in London, leaving her with a vague but sincere impression.But now, Mr. Reporter frowned deeply, and there was burning anger hidden in his clear eyes.Regardless of whether the anarchists from Russia really designed an ambush or not, it is definitely not a good thing to pursue clues with negative emotions in their hearts.

"Calm down first, sir."

So Mary invited Mr. Reporter to enter the door, and patiently advised: "Whether Suvarin designed an ambush or not, we must not let him know that Etienne was seriously injured, and..."

"and?"

Mary looked at Holmes.

Facing Mary's gaze, Sherlock Holmes remained calm: "After the police disrupted the situation, it made me reconsider whether it was Suvarin and his behind-the-scenes instigators who ambushed us."

Holmes clearly conveyed to Franz Harvey the train of thought he had explained to Mary before, in exchange for the extremely shocked expression of Mr. Reporter.

"impossible!"

He had just sat down on the sofa under the comfort of Mary, and when he heard Holmes' speculation, he stood up emotionally: "You said that there are traitors among the workers? This is absolutely impossible! The most united masses, even the women who burn the boilers, know that if they don’t take a firm stand, they will definitely starve to death under the exploitation of the capitalists. They have no way out, so how can they surrender to the capitalists?”

After speaking, reporter Harvey took a deep breath.

The anger in his eyes disappeared, replaced by surprise and anxiety.The reporter couldn't help pacing back and forth in the living room: "Even if you are right, Holmes, then we will wait here in vain and there will be no results. Is Suvarin framed, or there are traitors among the workers, as long as Suvari is caught. Valin, ask and investigate him carefully, won't all the results come out?"

It seems that there is no way to convince Mr. Reporter with conventional methods.

It is true that he trusts the workers more than Sherlock Holmes, and he belongs to them, but the detective does not.Hearing Holmes' analysis, the reporter Franz Harvey, who had been with the miners for several months when the miners in the Mengsou Coal Mine had been driven to a desperate situation, naturally found it difficult to accept that traitors were hiding among them.

Mary thought for a while, then eased the atmosphere and said, "Even if you want to confront Suvarin, you must have definite evidence. It was Etienne who first discovered that Suvarine had secret correspondence with outsiders. Maybe he missed something. Why didn’t Sherlock discover the specific situation because of the clues? Even if you want to find him, maybe it’s better to wait for Etienne to wake up and listen to what he has to say.”

This almost convinced Mr. Harvey.

He came to the Mengsou coal mine one step earlier than Holmes, and lived with the miners who were on the verge of running out of ammunition and food for a long time. Franz Harvey looked no different from them: embarrassed, angry, and because of chronic hunger Thin and out of shape.Only those clear eyes remained the same.

The reporter laughed bitterly.

"Etienne is awake," he whispered, "do you think he will, Mademoiselle Marie?"

"..."

Mary was speechless for a moment.

A moment of silence spread in the living room, and it was Holmes who finally spoke first.

"If you insist on confronting Suvarin," he said calmly, "it's okay to confront him directly."

Mr. Harvey looked up suddenly.

"Souvarin is only one person, and it is almost impossible for him to have allies in the Mengsou coal mine," said Holmes. If it is the former, we have won; if it is the latter, if the Workers International is willing to sacrifice an ally, that is all right."

Mary's heart tightened when she heard this, because what Holmes said was too provocative.She was really afraid that Mr. Reporter, who was in a state of anxiety, would be angered by him, but luckily he didn't.

Not only that, the reporter unexpectedly calmed down after Holmes' calm statement.

"……you're right."

He wiped his face wearily, and leaned on the sofa: "I would rather kill by mistake than let it go. This is not the original intention of the Workers' International. I am too radical. Thank you for your advice, Holmes."

Holmes raised his eyebrows. He seemed disdainful, but he readily accepted the reporter's thanks: "It's nothing, sir. If even you are not sober enough, this strike is destined to fail."

"Etienne...he shouldn't bear these things," Mr. Reporter muttered to himself, "He is a young man with great potential, and he should spread the spark of hope to the whole world instead of lying in bed unknown."

Franz Harvey covered his face with his hands.

Mary closed her glasses, and she patted Mr. Reporter on the shoulder reassuringly, and said softly, "Let's go and see him."

Étienne's gunshot wound stopped the bleeding, but that was only the beginning.

At dawn today, Etienne's body gradually became hot, exceeding the temperature range of normal people.Fever is a sign of inflammation, and it can never be a good thing to show up in a bleeding patient.In a northern industrial town like Massena, even if Mary's expenses are reimbursed by the British government, it doesn't mean they can get useful medicines.

Catherine never left, she helped Étienne wipe his body with spirits over and over again, and it was up to Étienne to fight the wound and inflammation by himself.

As for whether I can wake up...

If Mr. Harvey had been filled with anger when he entered the flat, when he saw Étienne's present condition, there was nothing left in his heart but sadness.Seeing that Katrin took good care of the injured while the injured himself was unconscious, the reporter's expression was heavy.

"If you don't confront Suwarin, that doesn't mean you're going to let him go," Mr. Harvey said. "We should find a way to investigate."

"I think so too."

Holmes agreed with him: "I have some plans, sir, which may require the assistance of workmen."

The two men couldn't stay in Marie's apartment for long, they exchanged clues, visited Etienne's situation, and then left first.After sending Holmes away, Mary turned back to Etienne's room again.

Katrin changed the cold towel for him every half hour, all night long, and she didn't sleep a wink at all.

"Do you need me to get someone else to help you," Mary asked. "You need to rest, Katrin."

"It's ok."

The young girl listened to Mary's words with a look of gratitude.

"It's nothing compared to working in the mines," she said. "You are very kind, Mademoiselle Marie. If Etienne will get through, I will pray to God every night and ask him to bless you." .”

Mary had received such thanks more than once since leaving Longbourn.Every time others said to pray for her, they were so sincere, and the innocent words of little Oliver in the past were still in their ears, but now, facing the unconscious Etienne, Mary couldn't laugh.

She looked at Catherine carefully, the daughter of the miner's family was calm and composed, and she was particularly skillful in tidying the bedding and taking care of Etienne.Mary had expected Katrin to cry after seeing the blood, and she expected the young girl to recoil in fear, but she didn't.

Mary was surprised and could not help admiring Katrin's strength.

"Aren't you afraid, Katrin?" she asked.

"afraid of what?"

Catherine sat by the bed and asked: "Are you afraid that Etienne will die? Death is not a particularly difficult thing for us, Miss Mary, at least you don't need to starve after death."

Mary shook her head.

"What I'm asking is, aren't you afraid that Chaval will be mad at you for taking care of Etienne," she said, "Chaval regards you as his property, and Etienne has always been the man who wants to rob him. Now you take care of him." He's so close to him that Chaval would go crazy if he knew."

Katrin: "I..."

The girl's blank eyes told Marie that this was the first time Catherine thought of Chaval in the police station since Étienne returned from injury.

"I should be afraid."

As Catherine spoke, an imperceptible smile appeared on her thin face: "Yes, I should be afraid, but I don't know why, seeing Etienne like this, I am suddenly not afraid."

Mary was silent.

Katrin is a very pretty girl.Even though her long-term malnutrition caused her hair to turn yellow and her growth to be poor, she could still see her youthful and sweet appearance from the body created by starvation.If she had been raised in a rich family--it doesn't have to be rich, just like the Bennets, or even like the Gardners in business in London--Katelyn would have turned out to be a big thing that attracted all young people. Beauty's.

It's a pity that there are no ifs in real life.

In Katrin's mind, whether her first man is important, or whether there are no other young leaders other than the "friendship" of her companions is more important, it is no longer a problem now.

Two days later, Savarin, who was making trouble in the street, was released by the police.

As Holmes said, the police station will not detain a troublesome worker for a long time-it is not really a crime, and if they continue to detain them and provide rations, they are not so kind.Shawar also fulfilled his promise and stole Mary's gun from the police station.He even went to the door to take a look at Etienne's situation, and all the complaints and insults disappeared without a trace under the young man's pale face.

Mary thought that she would just wait for news from Holmes, but she didn't expect that the news came to her door before the detective found the news.

On the morning of the third day, Étienne miraculously recovered from his high fever, and Catherine took Mary's hand in surprise and said that his body temperature had dropped a lot.Just when Mary joyfully told the incident to Holmes who haunted Mary's apartment under the name of "pursuit", a stranger knocked on the door of her apartment.

It was a young man, who looked to be about Étienne's age.It's just that his handsome face and bookish demeanor told Mary that he was by no means an ordinary worker.

The young man looked Mary up and down: "Are you Miss Bennet?"

He spoke English.

After arriving in the town of Massena, only Holmes and Harvey reporters could speak English to her. Mary was startled by the young man's fluent English with an accent: "I am, you are..."

"I'm Suvarin."

The young man asked, "Is Holmes with you?"

Mary shivered.

The object of their suspicion, the suspect that Holmes has been investigating, has come to him on his own initiative?