Resurrection City IV: Et In Arcadia Ego

[Old Fezziwig]

"Oh blast, that's Trevor's house." Diggory pauses to explain. "The baron and I are colleagues after a fashion. I'll come with ye." He takes a look back at the files, forlornly, wishing there were a way he could take them with him, but realizing that that alone would be all sorts of trouble.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

"Alright," Charles says as he pockets his service revolver and dons his jacket and bowler hat. "Let's go, then." After a short walk, the two police officers arrive at Trevor's house in Charles Street. Entering, Diggory finds four lesser officers engaged in conversation with Trevor and his servants and a rather unsavoury-looking man he doesn't recognize.

"She says there were two men," says one of the officers, holding a pencil and notebook. "An Indian fellow, about 40, and a youngish man, likely in his 20s. Says the younger man was called Edward."

"It certainly seems that they were searching for something. Baron Walsingham," says Inspector Charles, "do you have any ideas what that could've been?" He shifts his gaze. "Or you, Inspector Diggory?"

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Diggory cocks an eyebrow. "Baron?" Although he knows the answer, he lets Walsingham speak, as Jamison's not the best of speakers in the best of times and a far worse one at times like these.

 

[JimAde]

[OOC:Sorry for not posting. Craziness at work Trevor will NOT have told the police about Langan and the happenings in Wales. He doesn't especially want to get locked up in a loony bin.]

Trevor shakes his head. "Obviously there are some valuable things around," he says gesturing vaguely at the homes furnishings. "But nothing appears to be missing. I can't be certain until we get this mess cleaned up. Perhaps they were after cash. Some people keep bank notes in books and papers to hide them." He shrugs in apparent confusion.

[OOC: Bluff +8]

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

"Perhaps, perhaps," Inspector Charles says, jotting some things down in his notebook. "You say the men had a carrige waiting?" he says to Willie and Ferris.

"Aye," says Willie. "I b'lieve it were an amb'lance, or mebbe a hearse." Seeing the expectant looks from the police, he scratches his head in thought. "I think it said House? Howe's? Houser? Somethin' like that, anyways." Another policeman nods as he jots this down.

"A hearse, eh? Well, that's quite an ominous thing to be gallivanting around in, isn't it?" Charles comments. "So, Inspector Diggory, how exactly do you and the Baron here know each other? You said 'we' when talking of your meeting with Bond -- was he with you during that meeting?"

No problem on the posting, Jim -- it's that time of the year that things start getting a bit hectic. I know all about it...

 

[Old Fezziwig]

"We were introduced to each other at the house of a mutual acquaintance. As fer the meeting with Dr. Bond, yes, Baron Walsingham was present."

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

"Interesting," Inspector Charles says. "It seems likely to me that this break-in may also be connected with the Ripper. Perhaps someone thought you may have had some incriminating evidence? So then," he says, "any ideas who these two men were?"

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Inspector Diggory's obligations to the London Police begin to overwhelm the angels of his better nature, and he tells the truth. Or, at least, some of it. "Wait. Ye said the younger man's name was Edward? That couldn't be Langan, could it, Baron? We went to Wales at the request of Langan. Met yer man over at Scotland Yard the night we were with Dr. Bond. Said he was a relative of Mary Kelly somehow and was going to take us over to the estate. What we were there after, we never found out, as yer man ran off into the woods one night and left us there be ourselves."

 

[JimAde]

Inspector Diggory's obligations to the London Police begin to overwhelm the angels of his better nature, and he tells the truth. Or, at least, some of it. "Wait. Ye said the younger man's name was Edward? That couldn't be Langan, could it, Baron? We went to Wales at the request of Langan. Met yer man over at Scotland Yard the night we were with Dr. Bond. Said he was a relative of Mary Kelly somehow and was going to take us over to the estate. What we were there after, we never found out, as yer man ran off into the woods one night and left us there be ourselves."

Walsingham shrugs. "It's possible. If we've gotten back this quickly, he certainly could have."

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

"Langan, you say?" asks Inspector Charles somewhat rhetorically, as the other officer scrawls the name down in his notepad. "We'll have to check that out back at the Yard." They get a more detailed description of the man from Bridey, and then the inspector addresses you once more. "I suppose we're about done here, Baron. We'll be letting you know shortly if anything's found. In the meantime, drop by the Yard and ask for me should anything be missing, and we'll see that you're appropriately compensated. Wouldn't do to offend a member of the House of Lords, now, would it? After all, his lot are the ones paying our salaries."

He tips his hat, and he and the other officers file out.