I was puzzled and asked, "So what happened next?"

"I had no choice but to make do with what I could. I rang their neighbor's doorbell to ask them. However, the neighbors wouldn't give a straight answer either. They just asked who I was.

"Even though I explained that I knew Beatrice, they still claimed to be unaware of their family and asked me to check with someone else.

"But seeing them being evasive, I knew something was amiss. Finally, I asked an older security guard in the neighborhood and got this information. But I got kicked out of the neighborhood eventually." Theo laughed awkwardly.

"Kicked out? Why?" I asked Theo.

"Why? The Chandler family reported me!" He sighed helplessly.

"I couldn't find out more and didn't dare approach that security guard again. I was afraid it might harm him, and it's not easy for someone his age to find a job."

you think of asking the guard?" Edith

couldn't help, I wandered around the yard. The guard was on duty, and he asked why I was roaming

interrogated me and thought I was some kind of troublemaker, so he tried to chase me out. I had no choice but to tell him that I was looking for Beatrice. The Chandler family wasn't being friendly,

all listened attentively. It seemed that Theo had

impatiently told me to stop asking

then did he tell me quietly not to ask anymore. I asked him if it was true,

when she entered the instituion?" I asked, unwilling to

years," Theo said regretfully. "Otherwise, why haven't we heard anything from her? If it weren't for you, no one would have

ago, right? But she's been gone for around

in her hometown long after

a way to

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