Love Comes To Me
Chapter 1239: She must be cleared

"Fine, you don't tell the truth do you, then don't blame me for not showing any mercy."

Earlene gave her a cold glare and raised her voice to call out to Hardcastle.

"Hardcastle, come and tell me, did she take the necklace?"

"It ..." Hardcastle looked at Eloise and then at Rawlins with slight unease and stammered, "Actually I. ... I'm ... not sure either."

Hearing this, Earlene instantly grimaced and scolded in a low voice, "Hardcastle!"

Hardcastle stirred and blurted out, "Yes, I did see Elo take the lady's necklace."

"Hardcastle, do you know what you're talking about?" Elo looked at her incredulously.

Hardcastle avoided her gaze and kept her head down, her hands clasped uneasily in front of her.

Rawlins furrowed his brow tightly, "Hardcastle, is everything you say true?"

Elo's true identity was clear to him, and so was his certainty that she would never steal Earlene's necklace.

But Hardcastle had identified her as the one who had taken it, and this had become complicated.

With that in mind, he looked over at Earlene just in time to catch the corner of her mouth lift in amusement, and in an instant he understood what was going on. "It's true, Prince." Hardcastle replied, ducking her head to look at him.

"Call the police." Earlene said.

At that, Eloise turned her head, a little agitated, "Miss, I really didn't take your necklace, Hardcastle she's lying!"

Earlene sneered, "Hardcastle has been coming to the Bartram family for nearly twenty years, if I don't believe her, who will?"

"I..." Eloise was at a loss for words to defend herself for a moment.

Earlene pulled out her phone, ready to call the police.

"Wait." Rawlins shot over and pressed her hand, "You can't call the police."

Earlene looked up at him, glaring at him coldly, "What? Are you trying to help her?"

"Earlene, you know best what's going on here." Rawlins looked into her cold eyes and a sigh escaped his lips, "She's just a servant, why are you giving her such a hard time." "I'm giving her a hard time?" Earlene's voice rose sharply, "She's the one who stole my necklace!"

"I didn't steal it!" Eloise retorted back, she too was a little angry but held her temper, "I didn't steal your necklace at all."

"Huh." Earlene turned her head to look at her with a sneer in her brow, "You're not going to see it coming, are you?"

Eloise straightened her back and said in a firm voice, "I didn't steal it, I didn't steal it."

"Good!" Earlene nodded and smiled, a smile that didn't reach her icy eyes, "Hardcastle, look in her room, don't leave any corner unturned."

Hardcastle glanced at Eloise, then bowed her head, "Yes."

She turned and hurried away.

Rawlins sighed, "Earlene, there's no need, there really isn't."

It had come to this and he couldn't help but wonder if Earlene had seen something coming.

But...

He looked hard at Eloise's disguised face, and his brow furrowed; there was nothing broken about it.

"Rawlins, there was a burglar in the house and even if you didn't help deal with it, instead you helped the burglar, am I to suspect that you have some ulterior motive with her?" Earlene stared at him sharply.

"What secrets could I have with her." Rawlins withdrew his gaze, "Rather, I know exactly how this works."

With that, he gazed deeply at her.

Earlene looked away, avoiding his gaze, "This is the Bartram family, I assume there is still a part for me to call the shots."

"Of course there is. But I'd still like to say, have mercy."

Eloise glanced at Rawlins, knowing that he was trying to help himself, but the way things were going, it seemed that he might not be able to help much.

With Earlene's cautious personality, he must have set a trap waiting for her to jump in, and she had to replace a way to save herself and remain with the Bartram family.

Just then, Hardcastle hurried over, "Miss, I found a necklace under Elo's pillow, I don't know if it's yours."

At this, Earlene said, "Bring it to me and show me."

Hardcastle handed over the necklace she had found.

Eloise saw the necklace and a bitter smile tugged at the corners of her mouth; this really had set everything up, to put the necklace under her pillow in advance. The moment she reached the necklace, Earlene immediately said, "Yes, this is my necklace."

She then turned her head to Eloise and glared at her, her eyes were very stern, "Now you have all the evidence, how dare you argue?"

Eloise frowned and said in a firm voice, "I didn't steal your necklace, and I don't know how it got under my pillow."

"Hardcastle, call the police. I can't believe you're still so tough when you get in front of the police!" Earlene narrowed her eyes, a hint of ruthlessness in them.

Eloise tugged at the corners of her mouth and met her eyes undaunted, "Miss, the police are here and I still have the same answer. By the way, isn't there surveillance? We can check the surveillance to see if I stole it or not." She mentioned the surveillance as if carelessly, but Earlene's face could be seen to change quite visibly.

Apparently she had forgotten there was a monitor.

Earlene looked to Hardcastle, who froze, then reacted and said, "The surveillance has been broken for the past two days." Broken?

Eloise frowned, could it be such a coincidence?

Rawlins didn't believe it either. He called the housekeeper over and when he asked, he found out that the surveillance wasn't broken.

Hardcastle blanched and defended, "I heard from someone else that it was broken."

"From whom?" The butler asked subconsciously.

"It's..." Hardcastle couldn't say who for a moment, because she knew that the moment she said who it was, she would immediately be called over and questioned face to face, which would only prove once again that she was lying. Seeing that things were not going the way she had expected, Earlene had to replace her own way out, "Now that the necklace has been found, let's forget about it."

But Eloise wasn't happy, and her light-hearted dismissal didn't make up for the wrong she had suffered.

She said, "No, I still want to see the surveillance."

She had to be cleared.

Rawlins frowned; looking at the surveillance now would undoubtedly confirm that Earlene had set this whole thing up.

But not watching it would be unfair to Eloise.

Thinking it over, he finally went with Earlene.

"Elo, I know you're aggravated, I'll get the housekeeper to subsidise your salary this month."

Eloise didn't want to agree, but Rawlins' next words compelled her to do so.

"I don't think you want to leave the Bartram family either, do you?"

The implication was that if she insisted any longer, she might upset Earlene, who would then never be able to tolerate her staying with the Bartram family, given her personality. "Okay, I get it." Eloise agreed.