Charlotte initially chalked the stray hair to the aftermath of an eventful day, which likely resulted in the maids only managing to change her bedsheets instead of doing a thorough cleaning of her room.

But if I haven’t dumped anything I wore yesterday into the laundry basket in the wardrobe, how could my hair end up there? Are these even my hair? To whom could they belong to? If this is really my hair, how did it end up in here?

Charlotte had Lupine send the strands for analysis.

The results came back sooner than expected. The hair was indeed Charlotte’s, and the red stain was nail polish.

It was a perplexing finding, given that Charlotte, Lupine, and Morgan did not use nail polish.

sporting red nail polish had come

investigated the members of the household for potential

maids wore nail polish, and three of

neat and showed no prior signs of

maids put under surveillance

not make further progress in their

had been calling Zachary and her children every day to no avail, which added to

of delivering

of radio silence from Zachary,

to track him down remained

night, Louis received a promising phone call during dinner. He turned to Charlotte, agitated as he said, “Charlotte, Mr. Murphy

she summoned Lupine. “Get the car ready; we’re going to

left to

I’ll come with you. I’d like to talk to Zachary

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