Well, the four men that went in the museum with us were arrested, but they will not likely be in jail for long since it was only an attempted theft of those diamonds. Unless the police have any other charges they can bring against them. After all, anything that M did, they would be accomplices to those actions. M was the only suspect in several other thefts of jewels over the last few years, but the police never could get anything positive against M.

And no jewels were ever found on any of his estates, or anywhere else, whenever the police had a search warrant. Very strange indeed. Considering that M loved jewels so much, he must have kept them fairly close at hand so he could look at them once in a while. There were 3 men found outside the museum as well, all had been shot. And Marven, well, he just disappeared. Too bad really. If he had turned those men over to the police, we could have helped him.

Now, he will be wanted for murder. He certainly made a bad choice. Our new hospital is nearly finished now, and it is usable the way it is anyway. That is a good thing. Bridgette, Annelie, Crystal and myself were the first ones to use the new place. I am not sure that is really an honor however. Rock talked to me about Annelie and him retiring from the Investigators to do something else a little safer. Something like Benson and Carine did in buying that hotel in England.

I told him if that is what they really wanted, then I would not try to stop them, even though I would sure be sorry they left. Rossana told me that if the Major was willing to help the police with their investigations of Victor, they would drop charges against him and give him a new identity. That would still be risky business for the Major and perhaps for Macey too. I will let the Major know about this however. I have a feeling he would like to get out, but in that business, getting out usually means in a box, or worse, like swimming with the fishes.

M did not have a will, guess he did not think he would die young. His only relative is Mandar and he quickly had his lawyers getting things legally changed over to him. Then he thought of hiring us to check each of the estates to see if we could find hidden jewels somewhere. We are all friends again. Mandar and Baldwin are back to arguing. Nice to see things normal again. If M did steal other jewels, as he claimed, then he must have kept them somewhere.

There were 4 estates, all in Europe. The one we had been kept at was in Germany. Another was in Spain, one in Romania and one in Greece. That could be an interesting case for us, and one that would be safer as well. But something kept coming to mind and yet I could not quite place what it was. Something that Marven said. Maybe Crystal would know. She was seriously hurt, but she will make a full recovery, which is good. I thought for sure she would die.

“You are a crazy girl,” I said to her while visiting her in her room, “you should not have gotten involved, he could have killed you.” I was trying to appear stern, but it did not work. “Well, he could have killed you too,” she reminded me. Poor Crystal, she was so sad right now. “There is no reason to be sad Crystal,” I told her, “you are a very beautiful and intelligent young woman”. “But who would marry me now?” she asked. “Any man that has some sense to him,” I said, “just look at Annelie.”

“I did not know Annelie…” she began. “And it did not prevent Sky from getting married,” I said. “Sky? Her too?” she said quite surprised. “Yep, because of that beast when Sky worked for Carole Ann the first time, he had beat her quite badly once,” I told her. “You must have been hurt quite badly too,” she said, “I am surprised you are walking around right now.” “Well, you probably noticed I am not walking very well at the moment,” I said. I looked down when I said that.

“You are not telling me everything,” she said. “Nothing serious,” I said, “I can live with it.” “I should slap you,” she said. “Okay, here, I will get closer, slap away,” I told her. Sky came walking in at that moment, with Muffin. Meow,meow.=That a long one. Sky giggled. “Oh, we did not hear you come in,” said Crystal. “I noticed that,” said Sky, “but that is okay.” Well, so much for this case, we all survived and recovered fully. I decided we would take a break for a while though, before taking on any more cases. We need a rest, but will that happen?

The End.

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