Hi. This is K.
Thank you for all your help the other day.
Have things settled down any?
I’m sorry to hear about the new guy.
Please take good care of yourself.
I’m not sure it’s appropriate to bring this up right now, considering the situation, but I have an update on the things you asked me about at our meeting.
It’s about S, the chief editor.
After we spoke, I checked the data S sent us when he quit.
I found some things involving and have included them here.
He was also looking into . Or rather, he found out about while researching something else.
You’ll see once you read what I sent you.
The date on the folder with these files was from just before he quit, so this must have been his last job. I have no idea how he planned to turn it into a story, though.
I wanted to know more about S, so I asked someone from HR who still works there and who was hired around the same time as I was.
They said it was probably all right to tell me now, since it’s been so long. It turns out S quit because of his wife.
According to the rumor mill, she suddenly developed a mental illness, and he quit to look after her.
She was apparently in really bad shape, making strange calls to his work and sending weird letters.
The editorial department is used to strange people contacting us, so I didn’t realize that some of the letters had come from S’s wife. But it sounds like it was an open secret among the part-timers in the administration office.
I know we butted heads, but I wish he would’ve talked to me about it, since we were in the same department.
Maybe I could have done something. But it’s too late now.
No one knows where he is, not even my friend in HR.
They said he looked deeply troubled when he announced his resignation, and it didn’t feel right to ask him about his future plans.
When I heard that, it reminded me of you and the newbie.
I decided to go ahead and send you the information, but to be honest, I’m really concerned.
We’re just writers providing entertainment; we’re not detectives. So please don’t get in over your head.
You’ll have to excuse me for sending this via e-mail, but my phone call wouldn’t connect for some reason.
Please call me back once you’ve read this.
Take care.