De Tanga raised his eyebrow at Hallas. "What do you mean the Salvation Society's only member? You mean to say Miss Peacock runs this group all for herself?"
"Apparently."
"Have there ever been any other members in the Salvation Society besides Miss Peacock?"
"No there hasn't been any other members. The Salvation Society has only existed for only a month."
"A month?"
Hallas nodded.
Well then I supposed I'm going to need have a little talk with Miss Peacock after I talk with Miss Rose. "Good work Hallas. Death right now is walking around Boddy Manor checking the rooms, I want you to go find him and help him out."
"Alright. I'll go look for him now." Hallas nods and proceeds to go look for Death with a slightly confused face.
I wouldn't be surprised if he gets himself lost. Anyway now onto other manners. Now where can I find Miss Rose? De Tanga scratched his head in thought. I guess I better just go take a look around.
Death strolled around Boddy Manor trying to see if he could find. He tried looking for any blood trails that could indicate a possible murder location or a place Mr. Boddy had been moved to. But unfortunately Death wasn't getting anywhere. The whole mansion seemed to be spotless. This really sucks. Death sighed and took another corner and walked right past a door to a room. He backtracked to that door when he heard voices coming from that direction.
"I don't know how much the guy had!" Death heard a young female voice speak. "I know Mr. Boddy's supposed to have quite a bit, but I don't where the guy had it hidden!"
From the manner that the woman was talking in the room Death figured that she was talking on some sort of phone. Damnit I just wish I knew who this was. Maybe if her voice wasn't so muffled I could figure it out.
"I swear I don't know where it is, I haven't found it yet! No I'm not planning to split with the money without paying you. You have my word don't you? Hey you got me on this job okay I wouldn't be stupid enough to cheat you out of what belongs to you. Especially when you are the one paying me."
The woman in the room grumbles in annoyance to the person she's talking to on the phone. "Whatever, I'll call you later if I can find out some info or if I get the money."
Death heard the woman click the phone off and approach the door. Eeep! He scurries off to hide so that the woman wouldn't see him. Death ends up hiding behind a large plotted plant just as the doors opens. Maybe I can get a look at her while she walks out.
The door opens and a figure steps out into the hallway heading towards another room only Death couldn't see anything through the leaves of the plant. Curses! I guess I'll just have to follow her! Death gets out from behind the plant just as the woman takes a corner at the end of the hall.
Being as fast and as quiet as he can Death follows the mystery woman to the best of his ability. Unfortunately he wasn't close enough to see who it was.
As Death took another corner he just saw the woman go into a room the door closing behind her. Ha! Got her now! Death ran down the hall and stood right in front of the room that the woman was in. It was the ballroom, Death had visited that room prior so he knew what room it was.
Death decided just to go in the room pretending that he was just looking around so as not to alert the woman that he was following her. With a deep breath Death turns the knob and goes in the room to find it empty.
What?! Where the hell is she?! She went in this room! I saw her! How could she get out?! Death spun himself around the room in confusion. That's it I'm going to tear this place room apart till I figure out where she went!
After a little searching around De Tanga finally found where Martina Rose was. She was meditating inside her assigned room with lots of incense burning.
"Miss Rose?" De Tanga called knocking on her door.
De Tanga got no answer from the room.
"Miss Rose are you there?" He knocked again but still he got no answer.
"Miss Ro -- " De Tanga started as Martina flung the door open with a very cross look on her face.
"What?!" She yelled at him.
"Ahem. Um Miss Rose I wanted to know if you could answer a few questions for me."
Martina huffed. "So I was bothered from my meditation for this?! Fine, fine. Come in and hurry up I don't got all day."
De Tanga complied and stepped into Martina Rose's room. He was surprised to see another portrait of Mr. Boddy hanging over the doorway.
"Kinda unnerving ain't it? I swear the old guy must have been really vain because he's got paintings of himself all over the mansion in every room." Martina shook her head lighting up a cigarette.
"Um I guess it's a bit unnerving. May I please ask that you don't smoke? I have a very strong dislike of the smell of cigarette smoke."
Martina gave De Tanga a very evil look before putting out her cigarette. "Okay so what do you want?"
"Well first off I wanted to ask you about your real reason for leaving your job here."
"I told you already I left to pursue a career as a medium."
"Ah yes I do remember you saying that. But I have information to prove that otherwise. You didn't leave your job, you were fired."
Martina scowled. "So you had a talk with the little nosey twerp huh? I'll tell you what that little maid isn't as sweet and trustworthy as you think."
"But you were fired, correct?"
"Fine yes I was."
"Then why did you say you left your job back when I was talking with everyone?"
"Do you think you'd like to admit in front of a whole bunch of people that you were fired because you were bad at your job and because you were stealing?" Martina gave him a cross look.
"Fair enough. But that's the only thing you lied about?"
"Yes."
De Tanga nodded his head in thought. "Okay then can you tell me what you mean about Miss White not being trustworthy?"
Martina's grin turned slightly mischievous. "Well little Miss White hasn't always been a part-time maid. You see she used to be a struggling actor. She was very good at drama and stage work but because of her age and look most people didn't want her unless she was playing the part of a sweet little innocent girl. When she first came here to Boddy Manor she owed quite a bit of money to her acting school so she used her acting skills to play on Mr. Boddy's soft side so that she could get a job here."
"Wait a minute, if she owed money then why didn't she just have her father help her out with what she owed? Philionel White is the mayor after all."
"Apparently Mayor White doesn't approve of people pursuing acting careers so he strictly forbid her to go into acting. But little Amelia went behind his back to go to enroll in that acting school. And since she couldn't have her daddy to help her out she had to go elsewhere and why not go after the richest man in the city?" Martina spoke with such bitter tones.
"That doesn't mean that she was acting to get a job here."
"I don't care. I've seen her acting abilities, believe me she's very good. She can lie through her teeth with no problem. I've seen her do it to her dad and Mr. Boddy."
De Tanga frowned. Oh well it's not like I completely trusted Miss White anyway. I can't trust any of the suspects here until I figure out who killed Mr. Boddy. "So do you think Miss White could have been capable of killing Mr. Boddy?"
"If she had a reason, then yes I'm sure that she would be capable."
Hmm... but what reason would she have anyway? Oh well that's my job to find out. Now what else did I want to talk to Miss Rose about? Oh yes I remember. "My next question Miss Rose, is why did you snort when Filia Peach was talking?"
Martina rolled her eyes. "That girl is not related to Mr. Boddy at all, I'm sure of it."
"Why do you say that?"
"I used to work here for many years, and I've seen many gold digging cons try and get money out of the old man. In fact it's actually too easy. Mr. Boddy didn't know all of his family too well so all these people could come in and pretend to be his family and he'd believe them."
"But that doesn't mean that Miss Peach isn't really a relative of Mr. Boddy."
"Either way the main reason she came was for money which is usually the reason for most people coming here anyway. Of course not like anyone could get much out of Mr. Boddy. That guy was a stingy bastard and kept most of his money very well guarded. I'm guessing that Mr. Green knows that well."
De Tanga gave her a curious look. "Why do you say that?"
"Well everyone but Mr. Boddy knew that Mr. Green was leaching money out of Mr. Boddy. Hell I would have done the same if I were in his shoes. Though I think Mr. Boddy was getting suspicious of Mr. Green because he kept questioning his work. Oh course Mr. Green always got annoyed with Mr. Boddy questioning him because Mr. Green knew that Mr. Boddy was starting to realize just why his money was starting to disappear."
Well now I have to talk to Mr. Green as well as Miss Peacock and Miss Peach. This just seems to get more and more interesting as things go by. De Tanga almost grinned at the thought but then stopped himself. No this is serious I can't go treating this like a game. I still have to be professional. "Well thank you for your time Miss Rose, I'll leave you back to what you were doing before."
Martina just snorted went to light up another cigarette as De Tanga left her room.
De Tanga looked left and right in the different directions of the halls of Boddy Manor. So who am I going to question next? He mused as he started to walk down the left hallway.