This person didn't know what kind of person he was, and the Duke suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing by his side, with a hint of coldness and sadness.
"Yeah, right?" The Duke couldn't help laughing. In his subconscious, he always paid great attention to the image in front of Evan. He wrapped himself with layers of illusions, but he couldn't imagine that if Evan knew What will happen to his truly dark heart.
Duke Wilson felt a suffocation, and he wanted to flee this place immediately.
"You have a good rest, I'm going out first, and a servant will come in to serve you later." Duke Wilson didn't dare to look Evan's eyes at all after saying this, and rushed out as if he turned and ran away. .
Looking at Duke Wilson's slightly embarrassed figure, Evan frowned slightly. Is there anything wrong with what he just said
After that, a servant from Cornwall Manor came in. This person should be a senior servant by the Duke's side. Evan had seen him by the Duke's side.
"Mr. Pastor." The servant's face basically had no expression, he nodded slightly, and stood in front of Evan: "I am Thomas, the servant of the Duke, and I will serve you these days."
Evan nodded, but his heart sank. What does the duke mean? Did your own words just make the Duke misunderstand something
Evan suddenly regretted it in his heart. His words just wanted to make fun of him, but he didn't expect it to have the opposite effect.
"Thank you for your kindness, Lord Duke. Please tell Lord Duke, I want to ask him to tell my servant about my injury, and let him take care of me. Don't bother Lord Duke."
Evan didn't like a stranger acting on his left and right. It took a lot of effort to accept Tom before. Now he doesn't want to and has no need to adapt to another person.
Thomas frowned as if offended, with some disagreement in his eyes, but his face still bowed respectfully: "Yes, Mr. Reverend."
Thomas turned and left the room.
The duke did things very quickly. Half an hour later, Tom, Evan's servant, came to Cornwall Manor. He walked in excitedly and saw Evan lying on the bed covered in bandages, his eyes growing again. A little panic.
"Oh my God, Pastor Bruce, what's the matter with you? They said you were hurt, so badly!"
Tom is like a hairy boy, rushing to Evan's side, trying to see something from him.
The valet next to him who led Tom in pouted slightly, and seemed to despise such an unprofessional valet, but he still respected Evan's attitude.
"Sir, if you need anything else, just ring the bell, we will meet all your needs."
Hearing this sentence, Evan still felt a little strange in his heart. He frowned and asked, "What about the Duke?"
The Duke would rather send a servant over to pass the word than come to see him himself, which made Evan very uncomfortable.
"The Duke is now dealing with official business, and there is no way to come to visit you. He asked me to apologize to you." The servant was still meticulous in his message.
Evan's eyebrows eased a little, but it wasn't intentional.
"So it is." Evan nodded: "Since that is the case, I wonder if I have the honor to meet the Duke tonight?"
Even so, Evan still hopes to have an excuse to see the Duke again, otherwise if there is any misunderstanding, he will not have time to cry.
The valet frowned and said in a low voice, "The Duke is now meeting with Mr. Johnson. After the end, I will report back to the Lord."
Mr Johnson? Evan's heart moved, Mr. Johnson was meeting with Duke Wilson? In that case, he had to talk to Duke Wilson.
After the footman left, Evan fell into contemplation. He knew that Mr. Johnson was Duke Wilson's lawyer, but he had never thought about it before. Since Mr. Johnson had concealed the church's finances, whether he would have a problem with Duke Wilson. There are also problems with this.
Tom didn't know Evan's worries, he still looked at Evan with a very exaggerated expression, and whispered: "Mr. Pastor, do you want to tell Mrs. Sanders what to do tomorrow's mass?"
Hearing Tom talk about this, Evan also came back to his senses. He is like this now, not to mention mass, but it is difficult to get up. It seems that the church needs an acting pastor to preside over.
"Let the assistant priest do the mass for me first. Someone from the diocese will come over in a few days."
Evan's assistant pastor is still a just graduated kid named Rooney. He is very simple and honest, and he runs behind Evan on weekdays.
Tom also had an impression of the assistant pastor, but it was not a good impression. He grinned in surprise, and finally agreed.
After the matter was settled, Evan sent Tom out, and he needed to be alone and think about how to talk about this with the Duke.
When it was about to have dinner, the duke finally came to Evan's ward again. Looking at Evan who was about to prepare a meal, the duke's face was slightly embarrassed.
"I'm so sorry to disturb your meal." The Duke's tone was still polite and restrained, but his expression was different from before.
Evan was puzzled, but he didn't show any expression on his face. He just smiled and said, "The Duke is too polite. I'm very happy that you can come here."
Evan decided to change his previous strategy of being indifferent first, and the current Duke still needs some encouragement.
Sure enough, when the Duke heard this sentence, his expression suddenly lit up. He clenched his fist a little excitedly, and looked at Evan, his originally pale cheeks were slightly flushed.
"Really? Do you really think so?" His tone was a little hurried.
Evan nodded with a smile, and said warmly: "Thanks to your care this time, my injuries can be healed little by little. My gratitude to you cannot be described in words."
Hearing this sentence, the Duke's originally excited expression eased a bit, but he still looked at Evan with some joy, as if he was looking at some treasure.
Evan pretended not to see the duke's expression, and continued: "My lord, I want to talk to you about the church property."
As soon as he said this, the Duke's expression immediately became solemn, he frowned and said, "Have you found the culprit?"
Evan sighed and nodded: "To tell you the truth, I am really heartbroken about this."
Hearing Evan talking about this, the Duke looked at him with a softer look.
"A merciful person like you naturally cannot understand the idea of a greedy person, but please don't forgive him easily. A person who dares to steal the church's money has already fallen to the point of hopelessness."
Duke Wilson's language was sonorous and powerful, but Evan felt a little uncomfortable. Duke Wilson looked at him so highly, but he didn't know that in this place, the most greedy person was actually him.
"Alas..." Evan sighed helplessly: "This matter is beyond my control. The day before yesterday, I wrote to the church. I believe that the bishop will respond in the next few days."
Duke Wilson nodded in agreement and said, "You are doing the right thing, but I just don't know who this person is?"
Evan hesitated for a moment, but Duke Wilson immediately said: "I know you are an upright person, and you don't want to speak ill of others, and you don't want the reputation of the church to be damaged, but you can trust me, I will never spread the matter."
Hearing him say this, Evan nodded hesitantly, paused for a moment, and then said, "That person is Mr. Johnson."
As soon as Evan said these words, Duke Wilson's entire complexion changed, first a little surprised, and then his face darkened.
"Are you telling the truth?" said Duke Wilson very sternly.
Evan couldn't help but be stunned: "Sir, is there any problem?"
Duke Wilson bit his lip and didn't say it for the first time.
Evan couldn't help but smiled when he saw it: "Lord Duke, I can also tell you the other way around what you just said, in this case, you can also trust me, I will use my reputation to guarantee that I will never pass the matter on. out."
"No, it's not that I don't trust you." Hearing Evan say this, Duke Wilson immediately defended: "I'm just afraid to make you worry even more."
"Lord Duke, you are overthinking it." Evan looked at Duke Wilson with a smile: "My courage is not so small."
Duke Wilson sighed when he saw his insistence: "Since you want to know, I'll tell you, I just happened to give Mr. Johnson a large sum of money and ask him to help me settle the laws concerning my textile factory. problem.”
"What?" Evan looked at the Duke in surprise: "Did Mr. Johnson ask you for it?"
Duke Wilson nodded, but for Johnson, he was already on death row.
He didn't trust the things he said at first, but Evan's words today disturbed his mind, and Johnson kept talking about it in his ear. In order to ask for this trouble, he was reckless wrote a check.
Duke Wilson's eyes tightened. Although he didn't care about such a small amount of money, he felt a deep shame for Johnson to deceive this matter. He would never let this person go.
"I really didn't expect it." Evan didn't know what Duke Wilson was thinking, but sighed on the side: "Mr. Johnson is so bold, even you dare to deceive."
He was already startled, and Johnson still dared to deceive the Duke. Does that mean that Johnson still has his back
Evan was already three points sure about his guess, and immediately said: "Lord Duke, please go and control Mr. Johnson immediately. I'm afraid he will jump over the wall."
Duke Wilson frowned. "What do you mean by that?"
Evan smiled a little embarrassedly: "I confronted him before, he tried to deceive me to buy and sell the church land, and then I realized his bad intentions, but my reaction was a bit extreme at the time, he was afraid You know my guess."
Hearing these words, the Duke immediately stood up, walked to the door and called a servant to come over and instructed: "Go and find Mr. Johnson immediately."
The footman looked at the fiery Duke in surprise, and said in a low voice, "Sir, Mr. Johnson has just left."
Duke Wilson's face immediately turned ugly.