Margaret had not only said goodbye to Shade, but also brought him new information:
"Last night, when Teacher Sylvia informed Duke Galina, even I didn't know what exactly had been stolen from Wilundell. But this morning, I heard Father and my eldest brother discussing it at the breakfast table."
She told Shade:
"It was the Royal Mint that was robbed."
"Oh?"
This was completely different from all the guesses yesterday:
"What was lost? Printing Plate Masters for banknotes? Hand-carved master dies for minting coins? Trial samples for new currency? Precision parts from rolling mills and stamping machines? Surely it can't be the precious metal reserves in the warehouse?"
Shade raised many possibilities, but Margaret shook her head:
"I don't know either. The best-case scenario is that the Mint lost the royal trial coins of past Kings, which are even more valuable than gold. That would merely be a royal scandal. If it was something else, even just the minting archives, it could trigger a political tsunami or even turmoil in the domestic financial industry."
Sylvia said:
"Although the Gray Gloves currently suspect that this was a major crime committed by Military Intelligence Section Six during the war to stir unrest within the southern nations, Galina made it clear that it was not Military Intelligence Section Six's doing. There is probably an even greater conspiracy behind this theft.
But this has nothing to do with Margaret. Now that the two Princes and Princess Margaret have all left the capital, King 'Lion Ryan' will personally investigate the theft."
Shade nodded. Then he recalled that when he had met Miss Pawo of [The Truth Society] in the exhibition hall of the Printing Guild yesterday, she had seemed quite interested in the Mint. But if [The Truth Society] had truly committed this crime, there