A Red Dead Redemption Story

Chapter 243 False Reports
That night, on the third floor of the Saint-Denis Hotel.

"Mr. Callahan, please go back to the police station with us to cooperate with the investigation."

After Lambert underwent the inspection after going upstairs, he came to Arthur who was sitting on the sofa waiting for him, and stood awkwardly and said.

Why is it awkward? Mainly because Lambert didn't come alone.

However, the police officers he brought were all left downstairs. This was not because he was giving Arthur face, but because the company employees with live ammunition upstairs forced Lambert to agree to come alone after weighing the pros and cons. Go to the third floor to 'meet' Arthur.

That's right, this is where Lambert's awkwardness comes from. He doesn't feel like he's here to ask questions, but rather to ask for an interview.

Arthur didn't know what Lambert was thinking, and he didn't care. What he was thinking was:

From the time the newspaper was released in the morning, to now in the evening, Lambert came to arrest people. He acted really fast.

Arthur sat on the sofa and asked himself:
"Chief Lambert, have you had dinner?"

"Mr. Callahan, I am only asking you to cooperate with the investigation in accordance with the order. I have no other intentions."

Arthur said:

"What, can't you cooperate here?"

"The police station is more convenient."

Lambert didn't expect that he was sitting together in the mayor's office and tasting cigars together before, and now he is going to ask Arthur to go to the police station to cooperate with the investigation. To be honest, he can't help it. Who asked someone to direct him like this.

"What's the reason? Since you want me to cooperate, you must at least tell me what I want to cooperate with in the investigation." Arthur asked.

"It's just some routine inquiries. After all, I believe you have seen the news in the newspaper. For this kind of thing, we have to give a response after investigation."

Listening to Lambert's official reason, Arthur said disdainfully:

"I, the client, are not in a hurry to get an explanation. Why are you so anxious? Why, can this kind of gossip and false reports be used as evidence now?"

"...That's not the case, Mr. Callahan. As I said at the beginning, I just want you to cooperate. I have no other intention. What is evidence or not? It's really not as complicated as you think. .”

Just as he was talking, Short came back from outside and said to Arthur:

"There were a large number of newspaper reporters outside who had gotten the news. They also had cameras set up."

"okay, I get it."

Knowing that there were indeed reporters outside, Arthur asked Lambert, who also heard Short's words:
"Are you trying to take a picture of me being taken away by the police?"

"..."

"Look, Chief Lambert, do we think we get along well? Even if you use random people to deal with the mayor and me, I don't mind?" Arthur said calmly.

Lambert also had a headache. He had been careless before coming and thought it would be fine if he brought the police officers with him.

He thought that Arthur would be panicked after seeing the newspaper, but the result was completely different from what he expected. People didn't care at all about the array he put up.There was no evidence in hand, and to be honest, no one reported the crime. In fact, Lambert just came to ask Arthur to cooperate. As for asking him back, that was after he asked him back.

It’s just that people are not cooperating now and have exposed his tricks. Forget it, he is just a person who takes money to do things. Now that the thing on the other end can’t be done, he doesn’t want to get himself completely into this trouble. He opened his mouth and said:
"Well, Mr. Callahan, or Mr. Morgan, no matter what, one thing I can assure you is that I have no personal conflict with you. These terrible things are just 'business matters'." I think you can understand."

Arthur gestured with his hand that Lambert, who had been standing since he came in, could sit down, and then said:
"Of course, after all, we have no grudges, and my cigars are to your liking, Chief Lambert, aren't they?"

Obviously Lambert likes the cigars that Arthur mentioned very much. Considering the benefits of that end, he probably won't be able to get them, but the ones on Arthur's side seem to be okay?So he looked at the closed door, and after thinking for a while, he seemed to have made up his mind and said:

"Bring me two more boxes of cigars, and I won't have anything to do with this."

This cheerful answer surprised Arthur. Although Arthur didn't know who was messing with him, Lambert was in such an important position, so he could be bribed with two boxes of cigars?
"Ah, it's just some cigars, why not, Sheriff."

In fact, it's not that Lambert is easy to bribe, but that Arthur doesn't know that as the chief of the Saint-Denis Police Department, Lambert has always been more of a bastard in this kind of thing.

He collects money to do things and 'do business'. He has always been a 'trustworthy' neutral.

Arthur was originally leaning on the back of the sofa, but now he leaned forward and asked:
"So who ordered this panicked action to catch me off guard?"

"Mayor Lemieux."

Lambert is really a happy person. His eyes are always on the immediate interests. You can say that he is a fool, or that he has a flexible bottom line and integrity, but he always It is not unreasonable to be able to have the last laugh.

You know, the market in Saint-Denis has changed again and again, but he has always been the captain of the Saint-Denis police station.

When to receive benefits, when to do things, and when to receive benefits but not do things, but also to receive benefits from the other end, the degree of this is not something that ordinary people can perfectly control.

After leaving Arthur's room with two boxes of cigars, Short, who had sent him away, also came back into the room and said to Arthur, who was smoking on the sofa:

"Boss, he and his people left through the back door. The reporters at the door of the hotel are still gathered around. Do you need me to ask them to get rid of them?"

"No, do we still have enough manpower now?" Arthur asked.

After Arthur divided the work among everyone at noon, most of the company employees sent to Saint Denis by Charlie this time were also assigned to work. Short thought about the number of people who were still in the hotel responsible for security. Afterwards, said:
"If you have nothing else to do, boss, then I think it should be enough?"

"There happens to be one more thing that needs to be done now. Send someone to this place." Arthur took the pen and paper and wrote an address and another sentence on it, and then continued: "That's a cafe. , follow the address above, and then give it to the female boss Maria."

"Okay, boss."

Before leaving the room to find someone to handle the matter, Short looked at the content on the paper curiously. It wasn't that he was peeking at it. He originally wanted to see the address, but he just took a look at what else was written on it.

I saw only one short sentence above:
"A01, third floor, St. Denis Hotel."

Good guy, it’s late at night, is the boss giving his room number to a woman named Maria?

Without daring to think too much, Short quickly ordered someone to deliver the 'letter'.

(End of this chapter)