"Do you know Mr Cooper?"
"Jacob Cooper?" the bartender replied.
Elisa felt a chill. "Yes."
"Of course, I know him, he comes to the bar often. In the morning, he has breakfast, then sits and reads the paper. But now that I think about it, I haven"t seen him in a while."
"How long?"
"I think the last time was around the middle of September. If I see him, what do I tell him?"
"No, nothing... in fact, just tell him that Elisa came, he will understand."
Elisa came out discouraged; she decided to retreat and go to a hotel to spend the night, so she could try again the next day.
The next morning, the day dawned gloomy, and Elisa was no different. After breakfast, she had an idea: she went to the city hall and asked the clerk to direct her to the relevant office.
There, she saw a
