I was waiting for the police to come, so I went to wash the dishes and came to the kitchen, Corry came to me.
"Miss Amanda, are you free?"
He took me to the study. There were no lights in the room, and the room illuminated only by natural light, which was a bit dim.
Gunars sat at the red-wooden table with computers and other things, and on the round stool was Gilbert.
Corry stayed at the door.
"Sit."
Gunars's voice was stiff, pointing at the bench at the front of the table. I'm seated there.
Gunars seemed to be hesitant to speak.
Is he going to fire me? In that case, how will the salary be counted?
I was thinking about these things, and he finally spoke.
"I talked to Gilbert. Last night, what was wrong with you and World? Are you dare to swear that you have nothing to do with the case? "
It is reasonable to suspect me that someone died just after I came to this house.
"I can swear."
I looked back at Gunars's eyes. He stared back at me, then said:
"What were you talking to him last night in Hearty's room?"
"We were talking about suspense novels."
"Suspense novels."
It seemed he didn't believe it at all. Sure enough, he may think I have something to do with Hearty.
Gunars appeared incomprehensible for a while and finally said:
"I have three requests."
"Okay."
"First, I hope you will stay here and continue your work until the time we agreed."
Unexpected request. Not to mention dismissal, he even wants me to continue living here.
"Second, regarding your quarrel with World last night, I hope you remain silent to the police."
Why? However, as far as I am concerned, I don't want to be suspected by the police and I'll try not to talk about it.
"Third, about me hiring you. As you know, I sent you a letter directly asking you to come here, but I hope you don't tell this to the police. Instead, you can tell them that you are a friend of Gilbert. You was introduced by him to come here to help with household chores only during the holidays. I hope you explain this to the police. Gilbert and you are musical ... Um ... How do you say...? "
Gunars looked at Gilbert and Gilbert said to me:
"You are my band's fan. Met me at livehouse. Let's just say it like this."
I asked:
"It's nice to be able to continue working here, but why hiding all these things?"
"It's not as if you want to talk to the police about the quarrels."
Although Gunars said so, this is not a response. What I want to know is why he wants to hide these things.
"I don't want the police to have any extra suspicion. "
This is also vague.
"Mr. Gunars, you didn't send any letters in the first place."
"No, of course I sent it. The salary will go up to 3700USD. Can you keep these three promises?"
"Well--I'm afraid not. I'm not good at telling lies."
"... 4600USD."
"Okay, I will do it."
Great!
"Then tell the police what I said above."
"I can do it. But what if other people in the family give contradictory testimonies?"
"I will tell them in advance, you don't have to worry about it. You just have to pay attention to your testimony. Can you repeat those three promises?"
Not dismissing me may because they don't want to get the police's attention for this. To such an extent, what is he hiding?
After leaving the room after retelling, I gave them a warning:
"But Mr. Gunars-always trying to hide something won't do you any good."
In the dark room, Gunars looked like a silent cursed statue, which looks terrible, so I quickly closed the door.