<div style="text-align: justify;">Colette wasn’t exactly looking forward to hearing everything Rich had done. She knew that she needed to know, but having met the man, the chambermaid felt that she would hear a lot of unsavory things. There wasn’t much she could do to avoid, it though. If she was supposed to help Paul figure out who could want to bring Rich down, there wasn’t another way. They would have to talk about the agent and his deeds in length.<br/><br/>Hearing about Rich’s two families made Colette really disgusted. She was, naturally, aware that men sometimes had mistresses, but thinking of a man actually keeping two families and tricking another woman to thinking that she was his wife and that her children were secure in their rights made her feel really angry at Rich and bad for both women, who didn’t know what a horrible man they were spending time with. ~“How… how does he even keep it up?”~, Colette asked, out of pure curiosity. She wasn’t sure at all that she wanted to hear more about it, but at the same time, the young woman felt that she needed to know what was going on.<br/><br/>When Paul agreed that Rich was a dirty pig, Colette smiled back at him. ~“I confess that I am tempted to let this person, whoever this happens to be, do whatever they want to him…”~, she murmured, almost as though confessing a sin. ~“The only reason I will not is because others will also pay for what he has done”~, the chambermaid completed, making a note on Rich’s two women. ~“Are we sure that this can not be someone related to either woman?”~, she asked, trying to think of every possible angle.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;">**********************************</div><br/><br/>The Gendarme didn’t even bother with what Shane was saying. First, because he didn’t understand English. And second, because it was obvious who had been the offending part. Between a wealthy couple and a poorly dressed man, there wasn’t even any question. Not to mention that the local Gendarmerie (police force) had a deal with the hotel, which attracted a slew of tourists, which was good for the city. So, that came down to one thing - whatever the hotel management said went.<br/><br/>Without entertaining a conversation - which he was sure Shane would not understand anyway -, the police officer led the man outside and into a police car. They had someone he could talk to back at the station, though it wouldn’t be much help. The version they would get down was already pretty much decided upon - Shane had attacked a hotel guest and been arrested for it. <br/><br/>With that in mind, the officer told the one in the car to drive to the station and took the side by the driver’s after making sure the back of the car was locked.<br/><br/>Once down at the station, they wouldn’t ask for anything other than Shane’s name before throwing him in a cell. The rest of the story would obviously be whatever the Gendarme who had arrested the man decided it would.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;">**********************************</div><br/>Back at the hotel, security was taking Martin’s statement more as a formality than anything else. No matter what was said, the final story would be that Shane had attacked Martin for no reason, but they had to take his statement to stick to protocol. The translator explained what Martin had said to the security chief and nodded. Through the translator, the man tried to reassure Martin and Diane.<br/><br/>“No compensation is needed”, the translator replied. “We apologize for not intervening before, and ask that you please do not hold this sad event against the hotel”. It was obvious that the hotel administration knew who Martin was and was kissing up. <br/><br/>“Please do accept a special treat from the hotel”, the translator carried on. “We will naturally send a house doctor up to look at you, and then we would like to offer both of you a day in our special services for couples, as a way of apologizing for this unpleasant moment”, he completed, waiting on a reply from both Martin and Diane.</div>