Another Bomb

I beckoned to Terry, who was standing at the door. "Terry, I heard a noise from the coffin." Terry drove away the people around the door and whispered to me in a voice that could be heard by only the two of us, "Madam, there is nothing inside the coffin. Mr. Carroll sent the corpse to the crematory right after Old Madame Brown died." This news shocked me. "Empty?" "Yes, it's empty!" This positive answer from Terry brought me courage. There were a lot of rules in Costsley, so few mourners would come after 2 p.m. In other words, there were no visitors in the mourning hall now. Besides the servants, there were only me and my bodyguards. I detoured the flowers and then stopped by the wooden coffin. There was the wooden fragrance from the coffin though it looked a bit cheap. "Madam, I don't think it appropriate." My acts astonished Terry, and he quickly commanded his men to close the door. Decency wasn't my priority now, and I just wanted to confirm whether I had hallucination. I pressed my