Bernadette
***Astoria ~ Marius's Manor***

Newt just shrugged tapping his charcoal pencil against the page of his journal lost in thought.

"I just wish to have the complete story of it. Nothin' to gain really 'cept a good tale to spin and *Hypothetical* Fortune. Nothin' else to it really. As for help, there is somethin'...", Newt trailed off pulling two more journals closer, each detailing more about Marius's perusal of the meticulously miraculous mirror. The dates all seeming to line up, but something just didn't seem to add up. There was glaring discrepancy in time between the journal entries that wouldn't stop setting off the alarm bells in Newt's head. 

"There has to be pages missin'. Entire sections maybe? Other notes? There has to be more to than him simply askin' around and visitin' the town from the legend's origin, and then headin' on home the followin' day."
Joseph
**-Astoria, Marius' Manor-**

Eve shared Newt's puzzlement looking at the book. Though if anyone currently living on this planet knew where missing pages would be, it's Evangeline.
She gave an inquisitive look, and put her book down entirely before she extended her hands and offered to take the journal from him so she could further inquire of Marius' words, 

"Please, allow me, dear"

Assuming he let her, Eve takes the journal from him.
Given her deep mental connection with him just before he passed, she'd have an advantage in delving her thoughts into the written mind of Marius. After bowing her head over the journal, and placing her hand over the page, she exhaled slowly after what felt like twenty seconds she perked up, and looked over to a painting hanging above the fireplace.
"There, there's something there"

She raises an arm to point to it.
Bernadette
***Astoria ~ Marius's Manor***
Immediately Newt perked up, looking over to the painting confused as he hurried over grabbing a nearby ladder reach up and pull it off the wall. But no matter how he tries to grip it, the frame was stuck in place. Which only fueled Newt's curiosity more. 

He stepped back onto the floor below tapping his foot impatiently. There had to be something behind that painting, but how to get it open... He glares at the painting, taking in all its detail. It was a self portrait of the late professor holding a specialty cane with a telescope mounted onto its handle beneath his right hand, and in the other, a tiny model ship in the other, observing it keenly. Both items immediately sticking out to Newt, rushing around the corner of another bookcase looking through the shelves, moving the books around finding the telescope piece. He slowly grabbed hold attempting to pull it down, only for a click to come from behind the painting. A grin slowly growing spreading across Newt's face.
"Aha now we're cookin'! Eve, see if you can find that model ship. We're not done in yet!"
Joseph
**-Astoria, Marius' Manor-**

Eve would stand and follow Newt over to the painting, she knew something was there but she didn't know what, she tilted her head curiously as Newt observed it, and seeing him runabout the place and scramble to find the telescope she was surprised at his keen eye, and was audibly impressed as he solved the first half, giving a little golf clap with her hands in a praying position.

"Very Keen, Newt, very keen indeed, your cleverness does not hesitate to leave me in awe"

She then goes to look for the ship, her mind nagging her in where it might be. She turned a corner round a bookshelf, and nearly ran face into the maid standing there with the very model ship they needed as she inquired 

*"Looking for this? Madam Evangeline?"*

To which Eve took and kissed her hand, receiving the boat from her and bringing it triumphantly to Newt
"Here you are, go on and do what you did again"

She said, handing him the ship so he could do what he needed to unlock the painting