Misperception

Chapter 5 - No clues

I woke up sweating after a long night full of nightmares, I must add another remark never to eat spicy liver and sausage sandwiches from corniche carts late at night ever again. God I can never stand up firm in the face of spicy sausages temptation. 

If I thought I'll solve the house keeping dilemma to a satisfactory result in that day, I was tremendously wrong. I did ask the services office for a cook, a maid, and a stay in house keeper. Well, I like to offer opportunities of work as much as I can afford. Selfishly to make my life easier, and secondly it is my way to share my wealth and good circumstances with society in a dignified way. Charity is important, but giving people a chance for steady jobs with good income is even better, my mother taught me that. 

After five hours of torture interviewing the candidates I ended up with Sally. Sally is a raw naive girl, nineteen years old from an adjacent village, she will be a stay in cook/maid and I will play the housekeeper role until I train her or find better solution. I'm very annoyed with the result and I know Sally will give me headache, how come this is the situation in a country that screams about unemployment all the time while no one wants to work !. Sally is shown around, told what to do for the day, and finally settled in her room with shrieking screams of happiness that she has her own TV with cable channels. "I hope you don't spend the day watching TV Sally and leaving me without food" I said with a smile. Sally replied "No milady, I'll do all you ask". I was horrified for a moment and found myself raising my voice "Sally, never ever call me milady again, ma'am will do, miss will do, doctor will do. OK!" Sally was taken aback and just said "yes, mi .. ma'am." 

Poor Sally took her first instruction in an aggressive way I'm sorry for that, but Sally doesn't know that my mother would literally kill me if she heard her addressing me as "milady". It is a title my mother hated even as the wife of the third son of a Marquis, she loved my father dearly but his family gave her a very tough time for the short period they were married. The old aristocratic family never got over the foreigner Greek bride their free-spirited son has chosen, and in response my mother hated everything about nobility and aristocracy in my father's home land. She allowed me to keep a good relationship with my father's family but never to indulge myself in the world of titles, I was brought up to be Dr. Austin and never lady Jane. 

When I sometimes said to my dad "damn mom's socialistic ideas". He always laughed and said "Your mother is not a socialist, she adopts all the right wing ideology to the bones, except when it comes to aristocracy. Dr. Helen Nikolas never liked titles nor people with titles." I miss them both, they have been on a dig in Egypt for the last year and half. If I wasn't busy I'd have gone to visit them, but that has to wait for now. 

After the horrible noises coming from the kitchen, I had my awful burnt late lunch made by Sally, God give me patience please. Daniel rang me to say we need to meet, so I offered he comes to my new office as my first visitor, and he was really happy about the gesture. Daniel came few minutes after five o'clock, after showing him around and accepting his congratulations we sat down to discuss the case. 

"It is a very strange and annoying case J, no evidences, no witnesses, no ransom note, lots and lots of nothings." 

"So I understand that the police didn't uncover any motive for the kidnapping except the speculated marriage of the mother to a rich man ?." 

"No motive as well, nobody seen anything or know anything of any value." 

"Did the police document the cabin with photos or not ?, What was in the garbage ?." 

"Strange question about the garbage J, what do you expect to find ?. But anyway the JBI documents all crime scenes with videos not just photos." 

"That is great, I like to watch these videos, I don't expect anything in particular to be in the garbage. But you know Daniel, garbage can elaborate on lots of things in anyone's life, and it is a good tool to establish the timeline for a woman who never left the cabin since she has arrived, don't you think ?."