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At noon the next day, after asking Vanessa's classmates or friends, Leon and Lily returned to the police station and received a call - Vanessa's school vice principal, Rice, fell to death in the stairwell of her home last night.

After receiving the alarm, Leon and Lily were the first to rush to the scene to investigate. Unexpectedly, they found an unexpected harvest here.

After looking at the body, Lily asked the forensic doctor at the scene:"How long?"

The forensic doctor gave Lily a relatively vague time:"I can't say, detective, maybe after eight o'clock last night to one or two o'clock in the morning."

Then she asked Forensic doctor’s cause of death:"Was he pushed?"

"It's hard to tell a detective, it's hard to fall by accident."

Then Lily looked around the rooms in the house, and finally saw that Leon had dug out everything he could find in Rice's study.

"The murderer wasn't looking for money, and nothing was missing here. Then

Leon introduced these things to Lily and said:"The deceased loved to collect first edition poems. There are many classics, such as a copy of Lawrence, a copy of Hausman,"The Waste Land"》"

"Are these things worth anything?"

Leon shrugged:"It depends on who you are. If you are a person like me, you will buy it even if you spend your entire wealth, but if you are a young man today, it will probably be a pile of waste paper."

"But I found something interesting here."

He showed Lily two notes he found among the first editions of the poems:"The first anonymous letter was written by her."

Lily picked up the note and thought of something when she saw the name at the signature.

"Yes, it was Vanessa's friend Julia. She cut off the letters Vanessa sent to others and mailed them back to her home."

Just do it, Leon immediately drove back to Vanessa's school to find her classmate Julia. From Julia, Leon got another secret of Vice Principal Rice.

After returning to the police from Rice's house On the way to the office, Leon told Lily that she had heard that Vice Principal Rice did not like the opposite sex yesterday at the university. This made Lily feel a chill all over. No wonder when she was at school yesterday, Vice Principal Rice kept approaching her. It's because she doesn't like the opposite sex

"This case is getting more and more interesting······"

Leon then planned to have a chat with Ronald, the president of the university.

"I have absolutely no memory of where I was last night."

Leon asked Principal Ronald:"Where were you during the time of the crime?"

"I was in the theater when the crime happened"

"in theater······So is your wife with you?"

"No, she's not interested in this, she's at home taking care of the kids"

"What would happen if neither of you were home?"

"Depending on the situation, maybe we will find a nanny temporarily······"

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Leon suddenly changed the subject and asked Principal Ronald a question in a meaningful way:"Is there an affair between you and Vanessa?"

"Are you saying Vanessa and I are in a relationship? No, I am not romantically involved with any students, including teachers"

"When did the opera end last night?"

Ronald recalled the time and said that it was a long time and the content was very boring. On the way home, he heard the radio report at 11 o'clock.

"thank you for your help."

After Leon and Lily left school, they came to the home of Albert, a teacher who once taught at Vanessa's school.

Albert was very surprised when he saw Leon and the others. Before he could react, Leon shouted to the second floor. Vanessa's name.

Seeing no response from upstairs, Leon called Vanessa's name in a commanding tone. After a while, Vanessa came downstairs.

After seeing Vanessa in person, Lily It suddenly dawned on her that in fact, Vanessa had not left Philadelphia at all, and she had already met her during the last investigation.

Only then did Lily suddenly realize that Leon had asked her in the hospital yesterday what she knew. Catholics and the meaning of face.

Only then did Leon tell Lily the truth:"Yesterday when we were asking John when Vanessa got pregnant, I asked Daniel to look into which clinic she went to for an abortion. But Catholics are not allowed to have sex before marriage, so I guess the person who signed Vanessa's name at the clinic must not be a Catholic. And Daniel found a record of Vanessa's abortion in a clinic, and the person who signed it was John."

"In fact, after investigating this, the only people involved in the case are the principal Ronald and the former French teacher Albert. However, principals Ronald and John are not Catholics, so the only place Vanessa can go to is to take them in. Hers can only belong to the Albert family, who are also Catholics. Am I right?"

"The death of Vice Chancellor Rice······"

Just as Leon was about to speak, the phone rang suddenly:"Hey Jeffries······"

"I understand, there is one more thing for you and Vera to do. You and Vera go to the school and invite Principal Ronald to the police station."

Leon then hung up the phone and asked Vanessa to follow the car to the library and meet Principal Ronald's wife, and asked her to go to the police station with him. In the interrogation room, Leon said nothing and just stared. Principal Ronald was still lying in front of him.

It wasn't until he stopped talking that Leon spoke:"Philip Ronald, let me ask you one last time where you were from eight o'clock to midnight on Tuesday night?"

"I'm having a private meeting with Vanessa's mother······"

Seeing that Principal Ronald was still being stubborn, Leon put in front of him the evidence of Vanessa and Vanessa's mother's confession that night, and the evidence of his fingerprints that Daniel found at the scene of Vice Principal Rice's murder.

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On the way home, Leon received a new mission and had no choice but to send Lily back home and then back to the anti-parachute force headquarters in DC.