Even though the good news outweighed the bad, Captain Fox wasn't happy in the slightest. You could practically feel his worried frown through his mask.
He dropped a piece of chocolate into his coffee cup and, while swirling it, asked:
"What about the witnesses? Did you get anything else out of the interrogations?"
The subordinate shook his head and answered:
"No… The earliest witnesses—the boatman, the child, the robbers—all gave completely different accounts. Some said the suspect was a young woman in a gorgeous long dress; some said he was dressed like a student; and others said he looked like a pretty boy with delicate skin, fresh out of prison…
As for the sex worker, the one who spent the most time with the suspect, she insisted he was a middle-aged gentleman in a bowler hat and monocle, and that he was captivated by her charm the moment they met."
