Chapter 5The letter was from my father in Geneva，and this is what he wrote：My dear Victor，I want you to know before you arrive home that an awful thing has happened.Your dear youngest brother，William，is dead.He was murdered.It happened last Thursday evening when Elizabeth and I and your two brothers，Ernest and William，went for a walk outside the city.William and Ernest were playing.William had hidden from Ernest，and Ernest asked Elizabeth and me to help find William.We all began to search for him，but we couldn't find him. We searched all night.At five in the morning I found him. He was lying on the grass，white and still.I could see the marks of fingers on his neck―the murderer had strangled him.Elizabeth had let him wear a gold chain of hers round his neck.On the chain was a very small picture of your mother.We all think that someone murdered William to steal the gold chain.Poor Elizabeth is terribly unhappy at William's death.
