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It was a Dark Night…

“It was a dark night, it was raining, and I knew that it wasn’t a night like the others. Something in me, continued to say, that I hadn’t hope. I saw something that I hadn’t to see, and now he is looking for me…he has almost found me…no one can help me…”

These are the last words, that Iason Pachi, an old man with Greek origins had written in his diary, before to being murdered. But now, if the court will give me the consent, and this assembly will listen to me, with God’s help, I’ll tell you his story:

Mr.Pachi, had a little antique shop on the 20^th road to the harbour of St.jhon. He was a quiet man with no preoccupations or enemies who really loved his traditions and origins. He spent all his days in his shop, and he took care of it like if was his house, his Greek. A night, like he wrote, a suspected man, entered his shop and after a long negotiation, sold him a little box with showed a sun, and a ring of glass in the middle of it. After that, the man run out of the shop… and suddenly a big noise broke the silence: Mr.Pachi, went out of the shop and found the corpse of the man full of blood in the middle of the road. In that moment started to rain and Mr.Pachi, come back to his shop. He couldn’t believe at his eyes, but as soon as he turned his face, to see again the corpse, it wasn’t there. Mr.Pachi closed his eyes to tried to calm himself, than decided to go to bed. But that night he couldn’t sleep, the last strange words of that man continued to round in his mind: ”Run to the police and remember “Elias has the truth…the Greek is the key” …

The diary finishes here…than, in that night, Iason Pachi was murdered. But I’m sure that he knew who was the killer, because that suspected man tried to say to him it, with these words:” “Elias has the truth…the Greek is the key” and I know, that Mr.Pachi understood it, because of his traditions. Sounds strange?! I’ve passed a night to think about it, and now I’ve the solutions. First, we have to divide the phrase in two parts, so we’ll have :

1)”Elias has the truth…” and

2)”the Greek is the key…”

Now we have to analyze the first: the sense is not difficult, the unique strange word is “Elias”, but to understand the true sense of it let’s go on to the second part: “the Greek is the key…” I couldn’t understand immediately, but than, I’ve analyzed again the first, above all the word “Elias”…I’ve made lot of internet search about the Greek’s language, and suddenly I’ve understand. The suspected man, knew that a man wanted to kill him, he knew exactly who was him, and he knew he hadn’t hope, so he placed one’s hopes in Mr.Pachi and he tried to say, indirectly, the name of the killer with a confuse phrase, trusting in Mr.Pachi’s sense of patriotism. In fact, if we analyze the word “Elias” and we substitute the letter “a” with the letter “o”, we obtain “Elios”, that means “sun”. And I’m sure that it has some correlation with the little box that the man gave to Iason Pachi and that we have here. Do you remember?! It has a little sun showed on it. Now with the consent of the court, I’ll broke the little ring of glass in the middle of the sun…and with the God’s help…Yes!!! There is a piece of paper: “the killer is Kerry Harrison, the boss of an illegal commerce with the Chinese’s Mafia. I’m j. Lee Harold, a private detective and I’m sorry about the problems I’ve given to you, please say to the police the truth”

Ladies and Gentleman, Court all, now we know the truth and now we know that Mr.Pachi ,an unlucky man dead for an unfair cause, will rest in peace knowing that the justice will win also for him.

Francesco Viliani