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most reluctant look on her face, which caused the three remaining widows to giggle.
    “Poor Maureen,” Emma said, “I do think that Bob is keen on her?”
    “He’ll be pleased to answer her questions then,” Elsa-May said with a grin on her face.
    “Well, come on girls; this place isn’t going to clean itself,” Ettie said.
    Half an hour later, Maureen arrived back. After she told the widows which banks Frank went to, it was clear that he hadn’t gone to the banks to take something out of a safe-deposit box, as neither bank had safe-deposit boxes.
    “ Gut work, Maureen,” Elsa-May said.
    “ Jah , now I have to have dinner with him next week,” Maureen said.
    “He’s the strong silent type, Maureen. There’s nothing wrong with that boy and now he’s inherited his daed’s business, he’s quite a catch,” Ettie said with a twinkle in her eye.
    “I hear a buggy, must be Silvie back,” Emma said.
    A minute later, Silvie burst through the door, quite breathless. “Phew, it took me a while and two cups of coffee, but old Mr. Winters told me that Frank insisted on changing his will there and then, so his ‘useless’ sons would get nothing.”
    Elsa-May leaned forward and asked, “So who did he leave his money to?”
    “Bob, Bob Pluver. And Bob’s to see that Growler is looked after.”
    Emma covered her mouth. “Bob.”
    Elsa-May said, “That means that Bob is now our prime suspect. That’s not gut . It means that we can’t listen to what he told us. If he killed Frank, he could’ve made up the entire thing he told Maureen.”
    “He was right about going to the lawyer, though,” Maureen said. “He didn’t lie about that.”
    “ Jah , That’s right, Maureen.” Ettie laughed. “But that was to his advantage to know where the most recent will was kept.”
    Maureen shook her head. “I don’t believe that he did it.”
    “Neither do I, but he does move to front place as far as the suspects are concerned,” Elsa-May said.
    “Are you going to tell the detective, Elsa-May?” Maureen said.
    Elsa-May narrowed her eyes. “I don’t know. I think we should sit on the information for now.”
    The widows had been silent for a moment, before Ettie asked, “You’ve got the cat, haven’t you, Emma?”
    “I’m afraid so. He just ignores me all the time; I don’t know how the old man got so attached to him. He just sleeps, eats, and he’s taken over the whole haus .”
    “You must look after him well, Emma. That was Frank’s wish,” Silvie said.
    “I will. He already has the run of the haus .” Emma gave a little giggle; she was not brave enough to tell the widows that the cat slept on her bed. They would consider her far too soft in the head.
    “Why would Frank suddenly decide to leave all his money to Bob on that very day? What had him so shaken?” Elsa-May drummed her fingertips onto her chin. “Ettie, go out to the buggy and get me my writing pad.”
    Ettie came back into the haus within moments with a pen and Elsa-May’s writing pad.
    Elsa-May began writing. “Suspects? We have the old man next door, the two sons and Bob.”
    “ Nee , not Bob,” Maureen said.
    Elsa-May glanced up at Maureen and then set her eyes once more to her writing pad. “As I was saying, Bob, and who else would have had something to gain from the man’s death?”
    “When Andrew and his girlfriend were here the other day, he mentioned something; he thought his daed had in a safe-deposit box somewhere,” Emma said.
    Elsa-May pushed out her lips. “Maybe he did have something in a safe-deposit box somewhere. Did we find a key anywhere?” The widows all shook their heads. “Perhaps the detective found a key. I’ll pay him a visit and give him what we found and ask him a few questions.”
    Elsa-May scribbled down a few more things on to her writing pad. “Let’s re-cap. Frank was upset by something –most likely to do with his sons, because he had Bob drive him to town where he went to two banks and