Be My Princess: Wilfred A. Spencer (COMPLETED)

(Sequel) Chapter 7

Claude started questioning him immediately.

Claude: "Could it have been cause by a lightning strike?"

The storm outside had already abated by the time as we arrived. But the storm in our hearts had not.

Curator: "I can't rule it out."

Curator: "There was certainly a lot of electricity in the air tonigt."

(Lightning caused of this?)

(But then... wouldn't it fail every time as there's a storm?)

Prince WIlfred had been silent up until that point but then queried.

Wilfred: "Nobody could have opened that case without the key, isn't that correct?"

Curator: "Yes, that's right."

Claude: "So, even if the security system failed..."

Claude: "Or if that was caused by a storm..."

Claude: "Nobody could have stolen it without the key."

The curator looked confused as Claude came up to him.

Curator: "I'm just as puzzled by this as anyone else."

Curator: "There are only a select few who have a key to this case."

Regina: "So that must mean..."

(The thief is one of the people working with the exhibition...!?)

Everyone seemed to be thinking about the same thing. The silence was stifling. Prince Wilfred broke the silence with a whisper.

Wilfred: "I don't want to point the finger at anyone..."

Wilfred: "But looking at the facts it does seem probably that it was a staff member who has done this."

The atmosphere was tense and the curator's face fell at these words.

Curator: "Yes, you're right..."

Wilfred: "Although I can perhaps think of one other possibility..."

The curator had hung his head slightly but he lifted his head again at these words.

Curator: "There have been several cases worldwide..."

(Cases worldwide...? Oh...)

I remembered what I had seen on the news about the day before.

Claude: "You mean that crime syndicate?"

Recently a group of thieves had been targeting large musems and art galleries. There was talk of it globally.

Curator: "How could that be...?"

The curator held his head in his hands and Prince Wilfred spoke plainly.

Wilfred: "Well if it's them as they apparently have the ability to get past any security system."

(They were saying about that on the news...)

Claude: "I see. I had heard that they tend to strike on nights as where the weather is bad."

Claude: "It was raining tonight... but that increases the likelihood of it being them."

Wilfred spoke to me.

Wilfred: "What do you think, Regina?"

(Hmm... what do I think? That crime group as does sound about suspicious...)