After Mr. Meras left, Klein began reviewing the materials he had left behind. Although they might involve Mr. Devil, when he considered his savings of less than a hundred pounds, the cost of living in Backlund, and that enticing ten-pound reward, Klein still chose to accept the commission.
If he really discovered anything, Klein would at most give the other party a warning. After all, a Social Butterfly renowned throughout Backlund had somehow not been beaten to death by those noble gentlemen, so he surely had plenty of experience dealing with such matters.
With that in mind, Klein read even more carefully. As word after word passed before his eyes, he realized that Mr. Meras was not the sort of minor nobleman he had initially imagined.
More precisely, he was a small businessman trying to cross the threshold into the nobility.
Although the documents did not state it outright, Klein could practically see the image of a businessman desperately trying to squeeze into high society through the information on his wife.
His wife was the daughter of a baronet, with no other siblings. If nothing unexpected happened, when her father died, she would naturally inherit the title.
A baronetcy might have almost no practical benefits, but it was still the stepping stone into Loen's aristocratic circles. Based on rumors Klein had heard at university and the information he had recently gathered from newspapers, he believed that Mr. Meras must have spent a considerable sum on this marriage.
"Generally speaking, in this sort of transaction between money and power, neither side should care about the other's private life..." Klein recalled the novels and films he had read in his "previous life" and found it somewhat strange.
It was not that he was overly suspicious. Ince Zangwill had simply left too great