Epay Stories: German Officer's Sword - Used

Epay Stories are fictional events related to ecommerce such as online auctions. The story German Officer's Sword - Used relates the activities of a man who purchases a used German officer's sword on the epay auction site. As he cleans the sword in preparation for display, he encounters a small bit of darkish red material which he removes and gives to a neighboring policeman for analysis. The results are surprising. He proceeds to try to obtain more information without success until a newspaper report links his sword to a now dead sword collector. He contacts the police in the town of the dead man who are agreeable to his assistance in further investigation.