"There has to be a clue somewhere." Francine said. She had instructed Buddy, Renee, Chaz, and Rosalyn to search the room that looked misplaced. So far, according to Rosalyn, everything was in the same place it was in before, so that was pretty much a waste of time.. "It just wouldn't make any sense if Mayor Roland just up and left without saying anything."
Francine turned to Rosalyn.
"Are you SURE that Mayor Roland didn't leave for a snack break or something?" she asked Rosalyn.
"Positive." Rosalyn nodded. "The mayor always calls me when he is going to leave the office. When he didn't call me at 11:45 for lunch like he always does, I knew something must have been wrong. So I came into his office and found that he wasn't in his room."
"And the mayor did come in today, right?" Renee asked.
"We have the security camera footage to prove it." Rosalyn told her. "And Butter, tramping around the place like it's a castle or something."
"The security camera!" Francine, Buddy, and Renee said at the same time. Chaz had stopped searching the moment the idea was proposed, but wasn't really interested in the lead.
"Do you see anything pal?" Buddy asked as Francine looked at the security cameras with full attention.
"Nothing." Francine said. "All I've seen so far is Butter tramping in and out, and it's getting annoying."
Francine thought that if she looked any longer at the screen, her eyes might singe from their sockets. She couldn't go another minute without rubbing her eyes.
"Wait a minute!" Rosalyn suddenly said, surprising everyone. "Rewind and freeze two hours back."
Francine did as she was told. Rosalyn then pointed to a figure that was coming into the mayor's office.
"That's Morcubus. He's been trying at Mayor Roland's position since the elections. He was the leader of a company called MorcuCorp. But when the mayor found out that Morcubus was polluting the city with the waste coming from the factories, he shut them down. MorcuCorp has been out of business since then."
"Where is Morcubus now?" Francine asked.
"We don't know. According to the yearly census he's not in town anymore."
"Does any one know or has known Morcubus?"
"Of course! One of his employees are still in town. We have him on file."
Rosalyn went over to a file holder and pulled out a dossier with five pages in it. Rosalyn handed the dossier to Francine and she looked over it.
"Herman LeTourneau, 687 Gothier Road." she read. Francine looked up at her friends. "Any one want to come with me?"
Buddy and Renee said that they would come along. Chaz wanted to know if anything was in it for him. Rosalyn agreed that the kids would be rewarding for their efforts and told them all to be safe. She also reminded them that if they needed any help to come back to the office to talk to her.
