Nothing was wrong with the service.

Frustrated, Casper asked, “What about the server?”

The specially-hired server in charge of their room stepped forward. “It’s me.”

Casper asked, “Were you the only one serving this room?”

“Yes, I served every dish myself.”

Casper fell into thoughtful silence before he addressed Russell. “Pull the surveillance tapes covering the kitchen and this room. I want to confirm his claims.”

Soon enough, Russell appeared with the footage he requested. He’s telling the truth.

The server pushed the food cart himself to the room.

Something niggled at Casper’s mind.

“Sir, did you bump into our server when you exited the room? Did you notice anything amiss about our server then?”

Casper directed his question to the customer who had complained last.

Will’s gaze turned to him as well. His name was Zachary Bush, and he had joined them on their Horington trip upon the invitation of one of Will’s friends.

No one in the group was particularly close to him.

Fear flashed across Zachary’s face. “What’s that got to do with me? I just went to the washroom. I didn’t expect to meet the server.”

Will to take a look at the surveillance footage. “Sir, the distance between the surveillance camera outside your room and the next closest surveillance point is less than a minute’s walk. Yet, five minutes passed before the server appeared on the camera outside

Will’s face as Casper turned his attention to the server. “Why did you take so

the server’s gaze

to explain yourself, I can only involve the cops. I’ll tell

told me that his friend likes a particular seasoning on his food. He wanted to add it himself, so I let him do it before we entered the

pulled the incriminating money

a powdery substance on each of

clean tissue to

“Get this analyzed. I want to know what’s in this

embarrassed. He had been so sure that the fault lay

never have imagined that the culprit was one of their

when he realized how they had kept a

brought him

stepped forward and pleaded, “Will, I don’t know what he’s thinking. I never thought he would do something to harm Mr. Jameson. It’s my

“You should

“I realize that most of the blame

your decisions regarding this matter. Please trust that we will cover his medical bills as promised, and I hope that you

were

his respect for Casper had

organized. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to fish out the

respect for Casper did not diminish the fact that he needed to find some scapegoats to face

matter to the police while

quickly and left with the server as well as

accompanied Will and his friends to the hospital. Lucas appeared to be

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