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Edward scattered the hay on the floor but he could not find what he was searching for. The blood stain was still there but Harolde head was gone, disappeared without a single trace.

"The... the head was right here," Edward said, more to himself thannhis butler. He ransacked the haystack again but his search ended futile. The head was really really gone.

"No one came in here, Your Grace?" Mr Brown asked as he joined his master innhis search.

Edward shook his head and said, "no, no one came in. The only person who did was Williams and Francis but I was with the head when they both came to see me."

Edward stopped his search and knelt down on the floor as his body immediately went weak. How could he have lost the head just like that? How could he have been this careless.

"We will find it, Your Grace," Mr Brown said. "We just have to keep on searching the place for any trace."

Edward knew that his butler was only saying this to give him hope but he knew that they were not going to find