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Unsettled Thoughts

Something just didn’t set right with Detective Walsh about that orphanage with the missing manager

He muses:

First of all, why would she leave, no notice, without telling anyone? There wasn’t a date book or planner to be found. And she was drinking more often than in the past according to her cooks. Something had changed in her life. Something got worse

And the children weren’t happy. They attacked the only home they had. They were angry, violently so. What was going on there? I will have to go question some of the youths.

As he scanned the paperwork pulled from the orphanage, he couldn’t find anything amiss. There even were occasional donations. But one seemed to donate more often.

Yes. Trazelli, the big wig. What was his interest in this place? The amounts were the same, regular, like clockwork. He seemed to be keeping this place afloat. But why? And look at that! His last donations were slightly higher. Interesting.
First I’ll need the children’s statements.

Detective Walsh grabbed his hat.

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