A Red Dead Redemption Story

Chapter 253 Obliquely speaking
Lemoyne State Court, Office.

Meredith Holden welcomed Arthur's visit.

While asking the assistant to make coffee, Meredith and Arthur chatted about stocks and the recent feminist movement until the assistant put down the brewed coffee and left.

Only then did Meredith get down to business and said:
"I probably know why you came to me. I asked the clerk to go to Rhodes Town to find you before, but your people said you went to Saint Denis."

Arthur picked up the coffee, tasted it, and said with a smile:

"I'm sorry to bother Judge Holden. I brought some gifts with me when I came back from Saint Denis. I'll have them delivered directly to Judge Holden's house later."

That's it, Arthur didn't continue talking about the 'gift'.

As early as when old Gray ran away, Arthur had been steadily delivering money to Judge Meredith Holden.

So no matter from which aspect, Arthur is not worried that she will fall out with him. This is different from Lemieux's relationship at the beginning. The interests between Arthur and Meredith have already been bound. established.

After Meredith heard that Arthur had prepared a gift for herself, she did not show any surprise. She just nodded and said politely:
"Mr. Callaghan, I'm still used to calling you this. I think you probably know that the investigative committee has arrived in Saint-Denis."

"Yes, I just don't know if Judge Holden has a list of committee members?" Arthur asked bluntly.

Meredith frowned, she could guess that Arthur came here for this matter, but she didn't expect Arthur to be so direct, what did he want to do with the list?Meredith didn't want to know, she said seriously:

"I can give you the list, but you'd better not do anything excessive."

"for example?"

Looking at Arthur pretending to be stupid, Meredith did not accompany him, but warned him seriously:

"The last thing you need right now is news of a committee member 'accidentally' dying during an investigation, do you understand?"

Hearing that Meredith thought she would do this, Arthur spread his hands helplessly and said:

"You see, this is prejudice. Just like the topic we just talked about, why should women remain silent? Similarly, why would I do such a bad behavior."

Meredith smiled and looked at the man who originally called himself Arthur Callahan, but was actually Arthur Morgan.

On the one hand, she also knew that she was too deeply tied to Arthur and could not escape. On the other hand, her relationship with the Ministry of Justice allowed her to hear some rumors. All of these factors finally allowed Mei Lydis, a woman with high self-esteem, was willing to continue talking to Arthur patiently.

Meredith said:

"Listen, you'd better not deal with anyone on the committee in private except our old friend Congressman Facardo McGuire."

Senator Facardo McGuire?

Arthur remembered this name. At Old Gray's banquet, this Congressman McGuire was also present. At that time, Old Gray introduced him to him along with Judge Holden and Baird.

If I remember correctly, this is a proud guy?

"I remember this Congressman McGuire, but when can his relationship with us be called old friends?" Arthur asked.

Meredith mentioned Arthur in a roundabout way:

"You should remember that McGuire also attended the Gray family's banquet. Why do you think he was there? Let me remind you, think about why that guy Baird and I were there."

Arthur's first reaction was that there was a good relationship between the Gray family and Meredith's family?Baird is it because the Gray family is an old local family in Lemoyne State?

But Arthur himself soon overturned these reasons. Meredith's reminder made it clear that there was a common reason for the three of them to attend.

Government relations, deep cooperation between the Gray family and the government, yes, that's it.

So a new question comes again, is this of any use to Arthur today?
Originally, Arthur wanted to question Meredith, but she had already picked up her coffee and pretended to drink it.

When Meredith put down the cup, she looked at the time, and then asked Arthur, who clearly still had half of the coffee cup left:
"Do you need another drink?"

Okay, it's time to see off guests.

"No, it's almost time for me to leave when I get the list." Arthur replied very consciously.

Meredith didn't hold back, and got up to see off the guests.

On the way back, Arthur was still thinking about Meredith's reminder. She was unwilling to tell her directly, and Arthur was too lazy to lick his face and ask. There was only one solution, right?

Now that he has the list of members of the investigation committee, there are many places where Arthur can operate.

……

Saint-Denis, rue Flavian, Angelo Bronte's mansion.

There were several guards standing guard at the door of the house, and not far away there were several police officers who had not left at all. They were patrolling in name, but in fact they were standing guard for Bronte.

In the room.

Bronte stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows. He looked at the guards patrolling outside the house, and said in a solemn tone:

"Carlo, when was the last time, when was the last time this happened? I can't even remember."

Military Advisor Carlo thought for a moment and replied:
"It was a long time ago that the soldiers under the ground had to sleep on mattresses. I still remember it was when we first established ourselves in Saint-Denis."

Bronte stopped looking outside. He turned around and sat down on the sofa. He looked at Carlo and asked:

"Hasn't Karl found the hiding place of that group of people yet? If we continue to fight like this, we will suffer heavy losses. Will Hongmen take the opportunity to expand its territory? And Lambert, he has warned me if I don't stop all this, He's going to hit us indiscriminately."

It has to be said that although there is probably a lot of water in Chief Lambert's harsh words, there is one thing he is serious about, that is, if the fight continues, he will definitely do something.

Carlo listened to Bronte's worries, but he didn't think that these were the things they should worry about most now. Ryan was originally just a little thug under Carl who couldn't be named, but now he has made such a big splash. Not to mention Haoda, he actually fought back and forth with them.

There must be someone behind this, and those who support Ryan are what Carlo is most worried about now.

"The editor disappeared, Angelo."

"Are you talking about the editor-in-chief who took our money but failed to report as we asked?" Bronte asked with a frown.

Carlo nodded and said:

"It's not that he didn't report according to our request, but he added other private information without permission and I don't know who requested it. We originally just caused trouble for that Arthur Morgan, but now? I think we have to Let nature take its course and kill him."

(End of this chapter)