Agatha Christie - Labours Of Hercules by Of Hercules (Uc) (Pg) (1947) (S

Author:Of Hercules (Uc) (Pg) (1947) (S [Hercules, Of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

VIII

Harold Waring was down by the lake. He had been walking feverishly for over an hour, trying by sheer physical energy to

still the clamour of despair that had

attacked him.

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He came at last to the spot where he had

first noticed the two grim women who

held his life and Elsie’s in their evil talons.

He said aloud:

“Curse them! Damn them for a pair

of devilish bloodsucking harpies!”

A slight cough made him spin round. He

found himself facing the luxuriantly

moustached stranger who had just come

out from the shade of the trees.

Harold found it difficult to know what

to say. This little man must have almost

certainly overheard what he had just said.

Harold, at a loss, said somewhat

ridiculously:

“Oh — er — good-afternoon.”

In perfect English the other replied:

“But for you, I fear, it is not a good

afternoon ?”

“Well — er — I — ” Harold was in difficulties

again.

The little man said:

“You are, I think, in trouble. Monsieur ?

Can I be of any assistance to you ?”

“Oh no thanks, no thanks! Just blowing

off steam, you know.”

The other said gently:

“But I think, you know, that I could help

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