End of The World, Part 6

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Welcome to the 6th part of the End of The World series. This part is where the title of this series begins to come into being. Sort of. You'll see. By the way, you may notice that there is no longer the customary mysterious bit - enclosed in quotation marks - just under the introduction, is not here. That is because it will continue in the next part. We continue from where we left off last time. Anyway, the introduction is long complete, so, begin! 

It is 7 o'clock in the morning, and a new day for Davison Hall. The Davisons are due to wake presently. They don't. The servants, being good servants, gave their masters some little grace, and think nothing of this slight abnormality, thinking their masters must be tired. After half an hour, the servants start to think about this occurrence, for their masters have not awakened yet, and their masters rarely oversleep. 

By the time it was 8 o'clock, the Head Butler, an English speaking German called by his surname, Von Hoffman, decided to take things into his own hands. He did this since he knew that, by now, at 8 o'clock, there was a fair chance that something had happened to the Davisons, since they almost never slept in this late. He made his way to the Davisons' room, and knocked on the door. He waited for a few minutes and then proceeded to open the door. It was certainly good fortune that Von Hoffman was the one that opened the door, and that there were no other servants within earshot. Why? Because any other servant might have caused a scandal. For the Davisons were absent from the room. "Mein Gott!"* said Von Hoffman, under his breath, using his native tongue, for that is what one does when something shocks them so much that they forget about what language they are using. This is what Von Hoffman would later recount as having seen at that moment: 

" The bed was neatly made, nothing at all was disturbed, why, I did not react until my eyes finally saw the flatness of the bed. The windows weren't open, even on close inspection by myself, nothing had been taken  from the safe, all her Ladyship's jewellery was still in attendance, and closer inspection of every inch of the room revealed no disturbance whatsoever, except the disturbance which was the absence of his Lordship and her Ladyship." 

Von Hoffman proceeded to make a thorough inspection of the room, and found no signs of disturbance except that which was obvious - the absence of the Davisons. The inspection took all of half an hour - probably more - and, as has been already indicated, yielded nothing at all beyond what was already known. 

Yes, things are starting to get interesting. In the next part, things will get as interesting as an action comic. The next part will be coming soon. Until then, goodbye, dear friends! 

*German for, "My God!" 

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And yes, the 7th part will be posted in minutes!