180 A Long Forgotten Name

"Yes," grunted Gutard, "The maid who was a thief inside my castle. Who stole the topaz from Alexa's wedding gown when she thought Lady Saskia would be killed during the trip. Why? Did it bleed your heart out of greed, because your daughter wasn't having it? Nerissa... The very maid who had the letter from Marquise Dagmar telling me who Jürgen de Wits' wife really was ... Marquise Dagmar was someone who really remembered the past and all sides very well. Thing I honestly wouldn't remember. All that gold should pay for the girl's silence and send her to England… But she kept the evidence, and you sent henchmen on the ship to kill them both, Alexa and her… "

'Wait! What? Weren't the killers on the boat for me?! Were they for Nerissa, in the first place?!' Alexa was amazed at the revelation, and even more impressed that Gutard was listening to all of Greta de Wits' false confessions and whimpers, while he had already unveiled the maid's murder.