A Red Dead Redemption Story

Chapter 186 Ending ([-])

Bravest Manor.

Dutch found Catherine Blevins dressed up in the living room, sitting at the main table, drinking a bottle of old whiskey alone.

"Mr. Tacitus, I didn't expect to see you here again."

Catherine shook the wine glass in her hand and looked at Dutch standing in front of him indifferently.

Dach politely took off his hat, pulled away the chair opposite Catherine, sat down, and said:
"Dutch van der Linde, it's nice for us to get acquainted again, ma'am."

Catherine had heard of this name, but now she didn't care. She drank all the wine in the glass, then took the pistol in her lap and asked:
"So? Mr. Van der Linde, what are you doing? As you can see, I am just an old woman waiting here to die. I have given all the money to La Torre."

After listening to Catherine's words, Dutch stood up again, then came to Catherine, reached out to himself and poured himself a glass of wine, and then under Catherine's scrutinizing gaze, he said with a smile:

"Gold, tell me where your family's hidden gold is."

"Hahahahaha." Catherine laughed. Is it because of this?I really didn’t expect that there would be idiots who would believe such a long-outdated rumor. If the Bravest family really still had gold, how could they be forced to this point?
After laughing, Catherine said sarcastically:

"Mr. van der Linde, let's tell you your true purpose. Don't you still understand whether our Bravest family has gold or not?"

Did Dutch really not understand?Not necessarily, at least at this time, he must understand that there is no civil war gold at all.

He and Catherine drank the wine in their respective glasses in one gulp, and then he caught Catherine off guard and knocked her to the ground with a punch.

"This punch is the price you paid for cheating me."

On the ground, Catherine was about to reach out for the pistol that flew to the side. Before she could catch it, Dutch stepped forward and grabbed her hair, dragging her back. Then under Catherine's vicious curses, Dutch pushed the candlestick aside casually, and the flame soon started burning along the curtains.

Dutch dragged Catherine with one hand and the unfinished bottle of whiskey with the other, from the living room to the door. He knocked down all the candlesticks he passed on the way, and the flames quickly spread throughout the mansion. .

Outside the gate.

Catherine Bravest, who collapsed on the ground, looked at her home, bit by bit, slowly being covered by fire snakes, and eventually turned into a sea of ​​fire.

In the end, the curses in her mouth gradually turned into painful wails, and Dutch just watched this woman collapse little by little in front of her. After confirming that the fire was irreversible, he threw Catherine away without looking back. On the spot, he mounted his horse and left here.

And Catherine Bravest was also crazy and rushed into the burning Bravest mansion.

……

Arthur and Baird, the governor's secretary, were sitting in the manager's office of the Lemoyne State Bank.

Baird smiled and handed Arthur a newspaper. The front page headline read exactly:
"The blood feud resulted in massive death."

"The Bravests vs. the Greys."

"Sergeant Gray is dead and most members of both families are believed to have been killed." "Bravest Manor was burned to the ground."

Looking at these big and small headlines, Arthur did not rush to read the text, but raised his head, shook the newspaper in his hand, and said:

"Your press release is different from what I thought, Mr. Baird. I thought it would focus on the role played by the governor in calming down this situation?"

Baird looked like you are totally wrong if you think so. He picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip and said:

"Mr. Callahan, you are wrong to think so. As I told you, this matter is just a simple family struggle, and it is just a family struggle. Mr. Governor does not want to be involved in this. This kind of thing is just a family struggle." If the political achievements are really under my control, who knows if I will be dug out and become a point that can be attacked?"

Arthur thought for a moment, and it was true. After all, the truth of the matter was completely different from what was reported in the newspapers. If someone really wanted to use this to their advantage, let alone political achievements, it would be good if it did not become a stain in the end.

"The feud between the two old plantation families: the Gray family and the Braithwaite family originated more than 100 years ago. Recently, the feud between the two parties reached its peak, and a bloody gun battle broke out in the streets of Rhodes Town. Most of Members of the Gray family, including Sheriff Leigh Gray, were killed in an ambush on the blood-red streets."

Listening to Arthur reading the text of the newspaper, Baird explained:
"Explosions, assassinations, etc. are too bad. Some people will be confused about the source of the explosives."

Looking at the newspaper that contained no truth, Arthur simply threw the newspaper aside.

Seeing that Arthur no longer looked down, Baird put down the coffee cup in his hand and said:

"By the way, one thing I think I should tell you is that the remaining Lemoyne Raiders escaped and fled to Texas."

"What does this have to do with me?" Arthur asked.

"It doesn't matter, you caused them to experience a miserable failure this time. I'm just reminding you, lest you go to Texas and get tricked by them and still don't understand what happened."

Arthur nodded and asked:
"The Texas government has no problem with this?"

Baird spread his hands and said:
"Their state government agencies probably have objections, but the local acceptance of this group of people's disdain to pay taxes and resist the government's attitude and behavior is much higher than in our state."

Arthur silently remembered Baird's reminder, and then he talked about the serious business he wanted to discuss here today.

"Well, I talked with Judge Meredith Holden of the Lemoyne State Court. I hope to set up a company in this state that will be responsible for catching fugitives and accepting some reward tasks, and for criminal suspects in this state. People provide bail bond services.”

When Baird heard Arthur talking about business, he immediately sat up. In the first half of this paragraph, Baird could understand that Arthur's company should be a private enterprise like Pinkerton, and he also emphasized that It’s Honshu, so in theory this is not a difficult thing to do.

It's just that the second half of the sentence left Baird a little confused. What does "providing bail guarantee services for criminal suspects in this state" mean?
Baird thought about it and realized that although he knew each of these words, but were they connected together?He really didn't understand, and he finally chose to ask Arthur directly.

Arthur chuckled and explained:
"Imagine now that you have committed a crime against Mr. Baird, you have killed Mr. Governor..."

"???Don't you dare say such nonsense, Mr. Callahan?"

"It's okay, this is just a hypothesis, a hypothesis! Haha."

(End of this chapter)