Jack And Fredrick were sitting on the couch in a pretty house drinking tea.
Jack was looking at the picture on the table that had part of it burned off.
Fredrick was just enjoying his tea, he said ""This is jolly good, I say! I wonder, what might she have employed to concoct such a delightful creation?" Jack gave him a side eye for not concentrating.
He looked around and saw many different photos of two different people, many of them had burned off parts of it, it was obvious this person was trying to hide someone or something.
Other than that it was a typical old English home, with wood floor and ceiling.
Creak!!
The door opened and a young-looking woman came into the room, she had a few snacks in her hand and was smiling at two guests. She had black hair, black eyes, and a beautiful face, she looked like an angel coming from heaven, Fredrick was immediately amazed by her beauty, but Jack... he was looking at this with weird eyes.
"Apologies for keeping you all waiting. I will now address your questions." she smiled beautifully.
"Cough... hello, we are-----" Fredrick was interrupted by Jack.
"We are from the H Divison in the Whitechapel area lady Margaret Brown, i am sorry to inform you but your ex Husband has been murdered a day ago in the central area -----" Jack got interrupted by something
Drop!!
Crack!!
"Wh... What did you say..." Mary dropped the snacks as she fell on the floor.
Fredrick tried to help her but Jack stopped him.
Jack repeated with cold eyes "Your husband was killed by someone a day ago at 3 AM in the central area, my condolences"
"I... I can't believe it. Are you sure? My husband... he's been killed? It can't be true." Mary fell on the floor crying, her voice changed immensely like she could not express her disbelief.
Jack got up and helped her up he said "I understand you are grief stricken Lady Mary, but for now i need your cooperation to catch the heinous murder of your husband." Jack said this with a very warm voice.
Mary nodded and got up.
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10 Minutes Later.
She was holding tissue papers and she was wiping her tears, she said: "Forgive me for my earlier actions officer, especially now. Although my husband and I were divorced, he never treated me poorly. Whenever he came to England, he showered me with extravagant gifts. It pains me that I couldn't maintain the same level of affection and that our relationship fell apart." Mary talked about her time with her husband.
Jack smiled and stopped her "I understand, that is good to hear, but Lady Mary, can you tell me the last time you saw your husband?" He gave Fredrick Clue to write this down.
Fredrick understood and started writing.
"Cough... I had the opportunity to see him for the last time at the Pancake Day carnival just a few days ago. We visited several places during that time, including the Whitechapel Market, where we bought many things." Mary stopped and took out a tree that was carved into a bird, she caressed it like it was her child. Jack took a mental note of this.
"I... This item was one of the gifts he gave me. It holds a special significance, as it reminds me of our very first encounter. That's why I requested him to purchase it for me." Mary put the carving down.
She looked up at the officers and said "Any more questions?"
Jack smiled and said "Last one Lady Mary, tell me did your husband have any drinking problems?" He stood up.
Mary was bewildered at first then said with a calm voice "N... No, he didn't have any drinking problems." She watched as Jack took the photo that was on the table.
He looked at it and caressed it, Mery Twiched his hand, Jack said this "Beautiful photo, taken from the latest professional camera that had Dry Plate Photography technology, very powerful and revolutionary Kodak No.1 released 14 days ago in New York, only very powerful artist would be able to take it from there to here in this short amount of time, tell me Mary where is this photo taken again?" Jack said this with a calm voice.
Mary was bewildered after seeing Jack deduce the exact model of the camera just by looking at the photo, she got a little nervous and said"It... It was taken in the latest project he was working on. I can provide you with the address if you wish." Mary said nervously.
Jack smiled and took the paper from Fredrick he said "Please, that would help me very much"
Mary nodded and wrote down the address.
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Outside.
Jack and Fredrick left after saying their condolences to Mary.
Fredrick sighed and said, "We obtained nothing from it; it was merely a waste of time."
Jack smiled and said, "Let's go."
Fredrick was confused. "Where should we go, at the office?"
Jack smiled at him "Let's see the killer." He went towards his car and sat on it.
He left Fredrick bewildered, he followed Jack fast and asked
"PARDON ME... COugh..., but are you suggesting that we apprehended the killer, despite our previous failure to gather any information?... " Fredrick asked Jack with a shocked voice.
Jack smiled and said, "I am going to tell you on the road, we probably don't have much time."
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
Engine started.
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On the road.
"Could you kindly explain what you meant by 'taking the killer up'? I am quite intrigued and eager to know more." Fredrick was looking at Jack with shining eyes.
Jack laughed and said "You have many things to learn Fredrick, or this world has many things to learn yet..." he stopped for a while.
"This world? What d'ye mean—?" Fredrick got interrupted again.
"Her acting and constant voice cracks, she was also trying to avoid eye contact, her voice was telling me she was trying to force the tears out, her hand twitching after i touched the photo, and most importantly after i pressured her with my voice she broke and answered me what i needed to hear... exact address of the killer... his son..." Jack dropped the bombshell and left Fredrick completely petrified.
He added "Voice can cause many different things Fredrick, and if you use it right it can become one of the best weapons a mortal man can ever use... and i just did that to her..." Jack smiled with a cold face.
End Of Chapter.