A beautiful piano was being played on a mansion. A noble, playing the piece series of "Allegro" by Mozart. One of the best piece in the history of piano.
Sherrinford, familiar with the talent, immediately knocks at the door. The housekeeper gave Sherrinford an annoyed face and told him that the young master is not at home. But Sherrinford insist and keep shouting the name of his old friend;
"I know you're in there, my good friend Charles!"
The man playing the piano stopped and looked at the window with total enthusiasm. He rush towards the door and screamed "is that you!? Sherrinford!?"
Sherrinford then shouts back and said
"I haven't seen you for a while now innit? Charles Hamilton?!"
Sherrinford and Xavier were welcomed by one of the richest count in London, The Hamiltons.
Charles is apparently the third son of the house and he can freely do whatever he wants to do since his two big brother are working on a trading industry. Charles is currently known as a professional musician.
Charles asked for the purpose of his came and Sherrinford immediately handed over the notes that the late doctor was working. In to Charles surprise, it was the unfinished piece of Mozart before his passing, also known as "Requiem". The two of them look so cautiously at Charles and asked if it's something serious, and Charles replied;
"For non musicians, it is not, but for a musicians like us, this is a master piece he's trying to finish. Even though the late Mozart is gone, he's still trying to accomplish it.... But what I don't understand, is the code he pu-"
"Code!?" Sherrinford cried, "if it's a code inside then how come we never notice it!?"
Charles laugh and said "of course you don't, the code is put between melody, as you can see there's dots on it, it's a Morse code! You just never payed attention to these things and act so dependently to others now do you, sherry?"
Sherrinford, embarrassed, admitted his mistakes and told Charles to never say a word about it. Charles then explain that he knows nothing about Morse code and they should translate it instead of him.
Xavier, know how to read Morse code, decide to translate it for them. Xavier was given 30 minutes to translate it at the other side of the room.
Sherrinford asked Charles; "wait, so if you know nothing about Morse, how can you tell that it's a code?"
Charles laugh and said "I'm a musician, I know how every notes are written, and the dots are too many to the point that it's stressing me out, so I assumed it's a Morse code."
"Let's just wait for the outcome of your deduction" said Sherrinford.
Xavier translate it all and everything don't make sense to him. The words said;
"The Emperor of Yorkshire"
Sherrinford asked Xavier and Charles if they got a single clue about it, to which Xavier replied;
"Well it is known for being a historical place for the Vikings and Romans, but none were rumored to have an 'emperor' living there."
Sherrinford nod and told Charles if he got any deductions.
"Is he referring to a Roman emperor?" Said Charles, "If so, then possibly, Roman emperor Hadrian could be involve with this. After all, that emperor had wandered all across the empire including this country."
Sherrinford got an idea and immediately rushed back towards the doctor's office. The nurse, again, startled by their appearance, decides to welcome them again.
Sherrinford and Xavier starts digging the whole office. Tables, files, bookshelves and even a cabinet.
On a bookshelf, Sherrinford found a book about Roman emperors.
Sherrinford then told Xavier to take some notes and he'll begun saying codes.
Sherrinford opened the page where Emperor Hadrian is mentioned. To his surprise, there are highlighted words from the documented pages of it.
Sherrinford and Xavier listed all of the words that it is highlighted with an underline and finished by midnight. The nurses calmly told them to leave but Xavier wasn't even sure if they're finished. Sherrinford smiles and told Xavier to return back at his office.
At once, they have an evidence that could possibly save the doctor's life. If he's not dead!
To be continued. . .
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Mischief Of Midnight
Mystère / ThrillerMurder occurs left and right, commoners die while the nobles feast. A man from the Scotland yard started making his own investigation and became an inspector. His pure intentions and objectives is to defeat the so called "lone wolf of mist" and catc...
