The Shadow of Great Britain

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As for another assassin, Daboski, who had been hiding due to grievous bodily harm at the docks, was indeed confirmed to have served in the Polish army, and Talleyrand made direct contact with Daboski’s superior through Prince Chartoryski, the leader of the Polish exiles.

Interestingly, according to the Polish lieutenant, after injuring the person, Daboski had contacted many of his old comrades.

It is unknown where this young man heard about the successful case of Fred, the former underground ruler of the East End.

Perhaps because of his overwhelming victory over the London hooligans in a dock fight, this brainless Polish soldier thought he could replicate Fred’s path to success—establishing his dominion in the East End with a group of ex-military men using nothing but their fists.

According to the lieutenant’s testimony, Daboski initially achieved certain results, which led him to ambitiously recruit his former superiors.

However, the lieutenant, coming from a landlord family, clearly disdained such a lowly profession.

Moreover, as a young officer aspiring to restore Poland and maintaining contact with Prince Chartoryski, the lieutenant was not willing to tarnish his record with such a dark history unless absolutely necessary.

In hindsight, the lieutenant’s decision was undoubtedly correct.

For it wasn’t long before Daboski’s small gang was collectively drowned in the Thames River by the furious local gang.

If such a large group of ordinary parish residents disappeared without a trace all at once, the local priest would definitely have noticed immediately and reported it to Scotland Yard.

But the problem was, those who died were all Polish exiles.

Many of them were itinerants, and due to their Catholic faith, they would not normally attend the Anglican Church for worship.

As for Daboski’s former superior, the Polish lieutenant was aware of the incident but as part of the Polish Government-in-exile, his first thought was to suppress the matter.

This group of Polish exiles clearly understood their situation, and there were already people within British society who disliked them.

Bringing to light news about exiles forming street gangs and clashing with local hooligans would only worsen the situation for others.

Therefore, although these people had vanished from the mortal world over a month ago, astonishingly, not a whisper of the case leaked out.

As for why Daboski was resurrected in Liverpool, although Talleyrand did not explicitly state in the document, the implication was clear between the lines that the Daboski in Liverpool had been replaced.

He dared to make this implication based on the third assassin, Victor Novak.

Novak was also a soldier of the Polish rebels and after coming to London, he shared an apartment with Daboski.

In Arthur’s files, the information about Novak was quite scarce, but Talleyrand’s document provided a specific reason.

Unlike the information-deficient Daboski, Novak was an educated intellectual with a secondary school education.

Perhaps it was because of this educational background that he managed to fare much better than Daboski, who worked as a dock loader, after arriving in London.

He first secured a job as a runner at an accounting firm in London, and after Parliament passed the “Bankruptcy Act,” the firm’s volume of business increased exponentially, allowing Novak, who had some arithmetic skills, to become a temporary accounting employee.

Although he was only a temporary accountant, his income was sufficient for him to move out of the cramped apartment he shared with Daboski.

Once he moved out of the exiles’ residential area, gathering information about him naturally became more difficult.

And that’s where Talleyrand’s record on Novak ends.

The reason Talleyrand dared to implicate the Russian in the assassination through Novak was also because of the accounting firm that hired Novak.

If it weren’t for Arthur having revisited various records of Prime Minister Percival’s assassination case in order to investigate the assassination, he certainly would not have recognized the significance of this accounting firm named ‘George Wilkinson Company.’

This was precisely the firm where John Bellingham, the assassin who accomplished the assassination of the Prime Minister, had worked and the epicenter of the assassination case.

Had they not sent Bellingham to Russia for import-export clearing business, Bellingham would not have made enemies there, leading to his detention and bankruptcy.

Consequently, Bellingham would not have thought of assassinating the Prime Minister due to the Diplomacy and other departments passing the buck.

Even without taking into account Bellingham’s part, a company that had already expanded its Russian operations to the extent that it required a dedicated representative stationed there forty years ago was indeed worth attention.

Coconut now finally snapped out of his reflections on the complexities of the Royal Navy and glanced at the thoughtful Arthur, asking, “Actually, Mr.

Talleyrand also had me bring another document today, but afraid that it might put you in a difficult position, he told me not to take it out yet.

However, if you’re sure you want it, I can give it to you anytime.”

Arthur closed the document in front of him and asked, “What is it?”

Coconut placed his satchel on the table, “The equity structure of George Wilkinson Company.”