Agatha Christie - Complete Short Stories Of Miss Marple by Short Stories Of Miss Marple (U

Author:Short Stories Of Miss Marple (U [Marple, Short Stories Of Miss]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE HERB OF DEATH 69

was loaded and went off, killing the man. We had to ascertain in that case, first who had secretly prepared and loaded that pistol, and secondly, who had so led and directed the conversation that that final bit of horseplay resulted—for the

man who had fired the pistol was entirely innocent!

“It seems to me we have much the same problem here. Those digitalin leaves were deliberately mixed with the sage, knowing what the result would be. Since we exonerate the

cook—we do exonerate the cook, don’t we?–the question

arises: Who picked the leaves and delivered them to the

kitchen?”

“That’s easily answered,” said Mrs. Bantry. “At least the last part of it is. It was Sylvia herself who took the leaves to the kitchen. It was part of her daily job to gather things like

salad or herbs, bunches of young carrotsmall the sort of

things that gardeners never pick right. They hate giving you

anything young and tender—they wait for them to be fine

specimens. Sylvia and Mrs. Carpenter used to see a lot of

these things themselves. And there was foxglove actually

growing all among the sage in one corner, so the mistake

was quite natural.”

“But did Sylvia actually pick them herself?.” “That nobody ever knew. It was assumed so.”

“Assumptions,” said Sir Henry, “are dangerous things.”

“But I do know that Mrs. Carpenter didn’t pick them,”

said Mrs. Bantry. “Because, as it happened, she was walking

with me on the terrace that morning. We went out there

after breakfast. It was unusually nice and warm for early

spring. Sylvia went alone down into the garden, but later I

saw her walking arm in arm with Maud Wye.”

“So they were great friends, were they?” asked Miss Mar-pie.

Yes, said Mrs. Bantry. She seemed as though about to say SOmething but did not do so.

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