Fraud at Snowfields by Daniel Klock

Author:Daniel Klock [Klock, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dr. Daniel Klockenbrink
Published: 2013-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

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‘I’m sorry to disturb you, sir, but this young man is most persistent—says he needs to see you immediately. He says it has something to do with problems among the students, but he won’t be any more specific.’ She shot Will a dark look. ‘But he really insists, sir.’

‘That’s all right, Mrs Script. I appreciate the effort.’ The vice chancellor waved for Will to come into his office and to take the chair in front of his desk. Will sat down.

‘Want anything, Will? Tea? Lemonade? Water? Hmm?’

‘No, no... Thank you, sir,’ Will said. He looked at Mrs Script.

‘Thank you, that will be all for the moment, Mrs Script.’ The vice chancellor looked at her pointedly. She shot Will another glance, turned on her heel, and marched out.

‘You know, you really made her cross there.’ The vice chancellor chuckled. ‘Like every secretary in the world, our dear Mrs Script can’t stand the thought that something is going on she doesn’t know about. I’d step around her for a while if you don’t want her nagging all the time,’ he said with a wink. ‘Now then.’ He looked closely at Will. ‘What do you have to tell me so urgently?’

‘Well, sir, two days ago I found this in a corridor.’

He pulled out the blue banknote and laid it on the desk. The vice chancellor gravely looked down at it. Then he picked it up, turned it round, felt the paper, and put it down on the table again, right between the two of them. He looked up at Will.

‘Well, it looks like a banknote, but a forged one. Where did you get this?’

‘I found it in a rarely-used corridor, a shortcut in the eastern wing I use to get to the lessons there. I think the colour looks very much like Bluerin. Could it be that someone is using Bluerin to forge money?’

The vice chancellor turned it round in his hands again. ‘Hmm.’ He stroked his beard. ‘Look, Will, there are tales about a student of Snowfields a long, long time ago. He was said to have been experimenting, trying to turn Bluerin into gold coins. But he was caught and strictly banned from any contact with Bluerin. It seemed he never succeeded. However, years after he left school, a few strange gold coins turned up that were minted rather poorly, and some said they had a faint, blue sheen. I saw one once, and I think they were right—the coinage is poor, and the gold looks oddly bluish instead of the more reddish hue you’d expect with real gold.’

He sighed. ‘It was never ascertained or even seriously pursued whether these were fake coins, whether they were made of Bluerin, or if this student had anything to do with it…. There were more important issues during that time. Nevertheless this student became rather influential and quite rich at that specific time. Not many people nowadays know this story or would draw such conclusions, but I always thought it was all rather too coincidental.

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