Bitter Water by Douglas Clark

Author:Douglas Clark [Clark, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Endeavour Media
Published: 2019-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

5

After the sergeants had left them, Green asked: “How much are we going to tell those two, George?”

“Everything, Bill. I don’t want them playing guessing games and coming to the wrong conclusions. Besides, I trust them. My belief is that they’d support the two of us through thick and thin.”

“You don’t think it will come to that, do you?”

“At the moment, I don’t. We’ll see what tomorrow gives us, if anything, and then we can decide whether I should go to Anderson on Monday.”

“That’s what I’d have advised,” said Green, getting to his feet. “Now I think I’ll be off, George. Doris always cooks sausages for Saturday lunch and I feel I could do a lot of damage to four or five of them.”

“We’ll see you tomorrow then, Bill. Love to Doris. Tell her I’d like her to travel in our car with Wanda and Michael. We others will use the Yard car so that we can brief the sergeants as we go.”

“Good idea. See you, George.”

So it was with things arranged in this way that the two cars left the little house behind the Westminster Hospital in the comparatively light traffic of Sunday morning. Wanda led the way in the Jaguar as she was the only one who knew exactly where Housmans was.

Tip was driving the Rover. Almost as soon as they were clear of the narrow little road in which the Masters’ lived, the DCS began his briefing, and with a little help from Green, put the two sergeants fully in the picture.

“I can see what you are worried about, Chief,” said Berger, who had listened attentively to every word. “Whiffs of scandal and all that, but there are several things I think you ought to remember. Apart from the fact that there is no hint of corruption, that is.”

“Let’s have it then, lad,” grunted Green, who, though never happy when travelling in a motor car, nevertheless found this pleasant Sunday morning run on roads free of lorries less unsettling than usual.

“First, as the Chief said, we don’t know that we have a crime on our hands. Second, as far as we know there is no known criminal involved or even anybody in whom the Yard is or has been interested. Third, the Chief has completed no deal over this new house, and is unlikely to before anything that is going to break does so. Fourth, and I think this is as important as any of the others, the Chief has told us three about his negotiations. How can you be accused of corruption if you have given every last detail of your business to three police officers of the rank and standing of Scotland Yard detectives? We don’t benefit in any way, so we can’t be said to be a party to any jiggery pokery. That means nobody, not even the AC (Crime), can accuse the Chief of … well, whatever it is you two think he might try to clobber him for.”

“Good arguments, all of them, lad,” said Green.

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