Lord of the Mysteries

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The picture began to distort, began to blur, and began to disappear.

Klein got out of that dreamlike experience, and the line of sight followed the darkness of the bedroom.

He knew that big brother Benson spent 1 pound 10shilling, which is 30shilling’s weekly salary, and it was quite hard to support himself and Melissa according to the standard of normal civilians.

He thought that most workers’ weekly salary can reach 20shilling.

He heard Melissa mentioned that in the lower street of Iron Cross Street, some families of 5, 7 or even 1 people live in the same room.

He knew from Benson that in the past few months, influenced by the southern continent situation, the kingdom had an economic downturn.

He has learned that the miscellaneous maid who eats and eats can take 3shilling 6 pennies to 6shilling every week.

Klein stretched the action, pinching his eyebrows, and for a long time did not speak until Sir Dweyer opened in bed:

“Police, don’t you say something? The Psychiatrist I asked before will chat with me at this time and ask questions.”

“However, I did feel peace. I almost fell asleep just now, but I didn’t hear anything screaming and crying.”

“What did you do?”

Klein leaned back against the rocking chair and said, the voice said gently:

“Sir, do you know lead poisoning? Do you know the danger of lead?”

“…” Dweyer lying on the bed was silent for a few seconds. “I didn’t know before, but understood later, you mean, my psychological problem, or mental illness, is because I feel guilty for those lead workers and glazed Female workers feel guilty? “

Not waiting for Klein to answer, he is like every time he seizes the initiative to negotiate, each minding their own business says:

“Yes, I used to feel embarrassed. However, I have already compensated them. In my lead factory and porcelain factory, every worker can get more salary than the same place. In Beckland, lead-making women, glazed women workers don’t pay more than 8shilling, and I pay for them 10shilling, and more.”

“Oh, many people accuse me of letting them lose morality and it is difficult to recruit workers. If the “Grain Bill” is abolished, many farmers will go bankrupt and enter the city, they will have to follow me to raise their salary.”

“And I also told the factory’s supervisor that the workers who felt a lot of headaches and blurred visions left the place where they could get exposed to lead. If they were very ill, they could apply for assistance from my charity fund.”

“I think, I have done enough.”

Klein’s tone did not swing at all:

“Sir, sometimes you can never imagine the importance of a salary to a poor person. Even if they are unemployed for only one or two weeks, their families will suffer irreversible and tragic damage.”

He paused and asked:

“I am very curious, why are you so caring, do you not add equipment to protect the dust and lead poisoning in the factory?”

Dweyer looked at the ceiling, bitterly laughed:

“That will make my cost so unacceptable that I can’t compete with other lead factories and porcelain factories. I don’t care too much about this. I am even willing to subsidize some money, but always, what is the point?” This can only help a small number of workers, can not become the industry standard, and drive them to make changes.”

“This will turn into me to spend money to raise people. I heard that some factories, in order to save costs, are still secretly using slaves.”

Klein clasped his hands together and silenced the Formation Dao:

“Sir, your psychological problems are derived from the little guilt accumulated by this little by little. Although you think they have faded away, they have disappeared. Originally, this will not have any obvious effect, but one thing stimulated you, let all The question is ignited, all ignited. “

“Is there something exciting for me? I don’t know that there is such a thing.” Dweyer said with doubt and affirmation.

Klein let the body sway gently with the rocking chair, and the tone is gently explained:

“You just fell asleep for a few minutes and told me something.”

“Hypnosis treatment?” Dweyer habitually made guesses and made a conclusion.

Klein did not make a positive reply and said directly:

“You once saw a woman worker on the carriage who died on the way to work. She died of lead poisoning and glazed your porcelain before life.”

“…” Dweyer rubbed his temples on both sides, whispering uncertainly, “There seems to be such a thing … but I remember not quite clear …”

Long-term insomnia made his mental condition very poor, and it seems that there are really similar scenes in the vague.

After thinking for a while, he no longer squeezed his poor brain and asked instead:

“What is the woman worker called?”

“Well, I mean, what should I do to treat my psychological problems?”

Klein replied in a low and concise manner:

“2 things.”

“First, the woman worker who died on the side of the road called Hailey Walker. This is what you told me. She is the most direct stimulus, so you need to find her parents and give more compensation.”

“Second, widely publicize the dangers of lead in newspapers and magazines, and let your charity fund help more injured workers. If you can become a parliamentarian of higher parliament, then promote this legislation.”

Dweyer sits up slowly, self-deprecatingly smiled and said:

“I will do other things, but legislation, ah, I think this is not possible, because there are foreign competitors, the legislation will only put these industries in the Kingdom into a total crisis, one by one bankruptcy, a large number of workers As a result of unemployment, the poor organizations cannot save so many people. “

He jumped out of bed uncomfortably, took care of the neckline, and looked to Klein:

“Hailey Walker, right? I will immediately let Karun go to the porcelain factory to take her information, find her parents, police officers, trouble you and wait with me, always assess my mental state.”

“Okay.” Klein slowly stood up and took a police uniform on a black background.

…………

At 11 am, the living room on the first floor of the Dweyer home.

Klein, who hadn’t talked much, was sitting on the single sofa, silently looking at a man and a woman were brought in by the housekeeper Karun.

These 2 guests have rough skin, wrinkles on their faces, men ’s backs are slightly rickety, and women have black moles on their eyelids.

They are basically the same as Klein sees through Hailey, but they are older and more awkward. They are almost thin and can see the bones. They are worn out and worn. It is said that even Iron Cross Street can’t live down the street.

Oh…

In Klein’s spiritual sense, the cold wind began to swirl.

He squeezed his eyebrows and turned his gaze to Sir Dweyer, seeing a pale, transparent, and distorted silhouette appearing behind him.

“Morning, good morning, respect, esteemed Sir Alex.” Hailey’s parents were unusually calmly saluted.

Dweyer glared at her forehead and asked:

“You are Hailey Walker’s parents? Isn’t she also having a brother, a 2-year-old younger sister?”

Hailey ’s mother replied with fear: “She, her brother broke her leg at the dock some time ago. She broke her leg. We let him take care of his younger sister at home.”

Dweyer silent for a few seconds, sighed the road:

“I am deeply sympathetic to Hailey’s misfortune.”

Hearing this sentence, Hailey’s father and mother suddenly red eyes, each opening, cluttered:

“Thank you, thank you for your kindness.”

“The police told us that Hailey died of lead poisoning, should this be the word? Oh, my poor child, she is only 17 years old, she has been quiet and stubborn.”

“You sent someone to see her and funded the cost of the funeral. She was buried in Raphael Cemetery.”

Dweyer glanced at Klein, changed his sitting position, leaned forward, and said with a heavy tone:

“This is actually our negligence, I need to apologize.”

“I thought about it, I have to compensate you, compensate Hailey, her weekly salary is 10shilling, right? One year is 520shilling, um, 26 pound, we assume she can still work for at least 10 years.”

“Karun, you take 300 pounds to Hailey’s parents.”

“3, 300 pound?” Hailey’s father and mother were shocked.

When they were the most affluent, the savings at hand did not exceed 1 pounds!

Not only them, the bodyguards and servants in the living room are shocked and envious, even Sergeant Gait cannot disable to bear to make his breath heavier-his weekly salary is only 2 pounds, and there is only a “V” under his hand. The police officer is only 1 pound.

In the silence of hard to describe, the housekeeper Karun came out of the study, holding a bulging cloth bag in his hand.

He called the bag, revealing a stack of banknotes inside, 1 pounds, 5 pounds, but more 1shilling and 5shilling.

It can be seen that Dweyer has exchanged “cancellations” from the bank in advance.

“This is the heart of sir.” Karun, who got the owner’s approval, handed the bag to Hailey’s parents.

Hailey’s father and mother took over, blinked and looked over and over again.

“No, this, this is too generous, we should not accept it.” They held the bag road tightly.

Dweyer said solemnly :

“This is what Hailey should get.”

“You, you are a noble, kind sir!” Hailey’s parents were excited and excited.

Their faces showed a smile, a smile that was difficult to contain.

They praised Sir Dweyer over and over again, and they repeatedly said the few adjectives. They repeatedly said that Hailey would be grateful to each other in heaven.

“Karun, send someone to send them back, um, to the bank first.” Dweyer relaxed, commanding the housekeeper.

Hailey’s father and mother hugged the bag tightly and dared not stop and walked to the door.

Klein saw that the pale, transparent silhouette behind Sir Dweyer tried to reach out and tried to follow them, but they smiled so brightly that they didn’t look back.

That silhouette is getting weaker and lighter, and soon completely disappeared.

In Klein’s induction, the coldness of the living room is normal.

He was only quietly at the beginning, and did not make any comments.

“Sergeant, I feel much better. Can you tell me now why my butler, servant and bodyguard can also hear crying and moaning? Shouldn’t this just be my own psychological problem?” Dweyer looked over curiously. .

Knowing the situation, Supervisor Tolle became nervous.

Klein replied with no expression:

“In psychology, we call this phenomenon a mass snoring.”

PS: The prototypes of several female workers in the previous chapter are based on Jack. London, “Abyssal Residents-Insights from London’s eastern district”