Friday, March 25, 2011 ?
The tales of Tale 3: Troubles During Camp (Part 4)
--- Recap ---
Many things had happened after Looze and his classmates step onto the campsite. First, Mr Winton, their bus driver got killed. Next, Mrs Jenny, the dormitory manager was murdered. Who is the murderer? Read this to find out!
--- Story ---
Looze went back to the storage room to investigate again once more. From there we looked around the body, including around the things that’s had fallen all over the place.
Just as he was looking through, he found a bloody glove hidden under a cardboard box. He took out his glove and put it on. That would help him to prevent leaving any fingerprints on the scene. He picked up the pair of glove and sniffed it.
“Just as I suspected, it also have the smell of the cologne or deodorant that was on Mr Winston’s hand. Both murderers are the same person.” Looze smiled.
Just as he placed back the glove, he sensed someone spying on him from behind. He walked out of the storage room and looked opposite.
“Wait a minute, isn’t that the toilet beside the dormitory counter table?” Looze questioned himself while looking opposite.
Looze quickly rushed back to the dormitory counter. Just as he entered, he saw Peter standing in front of the counter table. Looze went up towards him.
“Peter, can I ask you some questions?” Looze asked.
“Oh sure. What is it?” Peter responded.
“Is this the only toilet in the dormitory?” Looze questioned as he pointed beside the counter table.
“Yes. We only have one around here. Why?” Peter wondered.
“Isn’t it a little less for the campers?” Looze replied.
“Oh no, if you were to go inside, it is actually very big. Each won’t have to wait long until they are able to bathe. At least 10 of them can fit in.” Peter explained.
After hearing what Peter had said, Looze went into to toilet. He was surprised at how big the toilet was. But, the toilet felt a little suspicious. Looze saw a small window about 3 metres high at the end of the toilet. He walked towards it and saw some water droplets on it.
“Water droplets? They are still fresh.” Looze felt the water droplets that had been formed on the window.
“Someone must have been here looking out of the window, most probably spying on me just now.” Looze imagined.
Looze opened the window looked around the frame of the window. To his surprise, he found something.
“This is soil. What is it doing here?” Looze looked at the bottom of the frame.
“It must have come from the ground just outside here.” Looze put his head out of the window.
Looze ran back to the storage room. He went towards the wall which had the toilet’s window. He closely examined the wall and actually found footprints.
“The food prints are 3 metres above ground level. Someone must have used this to climb into the toilet or, out of it…” Looze thought.
“Now I know who the murderer is. But, I need to find evidence to prove it!” Looze ran off.
Soon, Looze enter into the dormitory counter area with a wide smile on his face. Looze saw Miss Winnie and walked to her to ask a favor.
“Miss Winnie, do you mind helping me? Could you help by call everyone, including the works of this dormitory to gather here?” Looze pleaded.
“Okay, sure.” Miss Winnie replied with a smile.
No long later, everyone gathered at the counter area. Most of Looze’s classmates were discussing if Looze had solved it.
“Thanks for gathering everyone. Now, it’s time for me to reveal the real murderer!” Looze snapped his finger.
--- Revelation ---
“Is it true? Is it true you have found the murderer?” Rachel questioned.
“But I thought the murderer was Souno?!” Limmy shouted.
“Souno is innocent. The murderer is a really smart one. I almost got tricked by her tricks.” Looze said with pride.
“The murderer is a ‘her’?” Souno asked.
“Yes, that’s right. And the only one capable of killing and is a female is you. Isn’t that right Miss Melody?” Looze deduced.
“What are you saying?! You are saying I am the murderer?!” Melody reacted.
“And yes I am. Let me start from the death of Mr Winston. If I am not wrong you are actually dating with him isn’t it? And he had cheated you by spending all your money on other women. Actually why you killed him is what Mrs Jenny had confessed. Everything Mrs Jenny had confessed actually happened on you, not her.” Looze let out his deduction.
“And what about that? It doesn’t prove I killed both of them! And how did I kill Mrs Jenny?!” Melody yelled.
“As for Mrs Jenny, you went to killed her by getting out through the toilet’s window. The toilet’s window is directly opposite the storage room. You can get there easily within 30 seconds. And after you kill her, you get in through the toilet window again. And also, during the point of time Mrs Jenny went to the storage room, you had gone to the toilet.” Looze countered with his deduction.
“Didn’t Souno go out of the dormitory? He could have done it too!” Melody replied with fear.
“Yes he did. But he had an alibi, my classmates, Teresa and Sharon saw him when they were outside too.” Looze answered.
“And also, the dying message left by Mrs Jenny isn’t Souno. The letter ‘O’ is actually a letter ‘D’. Which spells the word SOUND.” said Looze.
“And what does sound have anything got to… Uhh…” Melody stood rooted to the ground.
“Yes, a beautiful sound can be referred as a Melody. Also, the right index finger of Mr Winston had lipstick on it. He must have gotten it from you when he was struggling and fought with you.” Looze deduced.
Melody fall onto her knees and started to cry.
“I admit it. It was me. But I didn’t want to really kill him. I just wanted to threaten him to return my money back. When did you suspect me?” Melody confessed with tears.
“I suspected you since you said to call the police after looking at the dead Mr Winston. Because you couldn’t have known he had died unless you are the murderer. Also, your trick on using cologne or deodorant was pretty good. It had almost tricked me into thinking the murderer was a male.” Looze giggled.
“I see. Cologne? Deodorant? What are you talking about?” Melody asked.
“Ha-ha, nice try. Miss Winnie, could you bring the keys over from the storage room? We can call the police now. Rachel, mind following Miss Winnie?” Looze asked.
“Okay sure!” both of them answer together.
After a call to the police station, the police finally came and they took almost a day to fix the bridge that was burned. Miss Melody was brought back to the police station the next day for the taking of her statement.
“Job well done Looze, I never thought you can do it without the police help. Keep it up young detective!” Inspector Max praised Looze.
“Alright everyone! Time to go back! Quick, get into the bus.” Miss Winnie shouted to everyone.
Everyone got on the bus and was prepared to go home. Just as they were about to leave, the doors of the dormitory main door opened. The eyes of Souno glared at Looze.
“Hmph… That young man, he is not half bad at all.” Souno thought.
As his thoughts went through, his cell phone rang.
“Yes Boss?” Souno answered the phone.
“Please do not worry. I will make sure that the job is done properly.” Souno said those in Japanese.
“Masaki Souno! Quit talking on the phone. Come and help me now! We’ve got many things to do!” Peter shouted to Souno.
“Alright! Coming!” Souno replied.
“I have to go now. I will contact you later. Bye.” Souno hanged up the phone.
--- End ---
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