Antique Dust: Ghost Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Westall Robert

Author:Westall, Robert [Westall, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Published: 2015-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

Mike Watkins joined me in the waiting-room; with his notebook.

‘I suppose you’re after the name and address of the accused,’ I said, with a weak attempt at humour.

‘Only for my own interest.’

‘Must have been old Anstey, the Public Auditor. It was the Anstey vault.’

‘Well, I’m not going down again to look – not for a superintendent’s wages. But I don’t reckon it was Anstey. Anstey’s memorial was desecrated too. And I’ve seen a painting of him, in old age – a thin, elegant old gent, with lots of frizzy grey hair.’

‘What I saw hadn’t got grey hair.’ I shuddered at the memory. ‘Who d’you reckon it was, then?’

‘The only memorial that wasn’t desecrated was Thomas Dore’s.’

‘The honoured and paineful schoolemaster and benefactor of this parish . . .’

‘Still publickly rebuking vice . . .’

‘And discretely practising virtue . . . God, I feel sick. I’d like to blow the place to smithereens and him with it.’

‘Nasty thing, repressed sex,’ said Sergeant Watkins. ‘We were shown a lot of that at Bramshill College. Prefer a pint of beer and a game of darts, meself. Don’t fret, Geoff. He won’t get loose again. I’ll have a word with the vicar. He’ll believe us . . . nobody else would.’

I took good care of Dorinda after that. Eventually, she got so she could walk into a church again; if I held her hand tight. She did that just before we got married. Which was the last day of Miss Dorinda Molyneaux.

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