Cast a Blue Shadow by Gaus P. L

Author:Gaus, P. L. [Gaus, P. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780821415306
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2003-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

22

Saturday, November 2 10:50 A.M.

SHERIFF Robertson met Sally and Jenny as they rounded the back corner of the big house. Waiting next to the cars and cruisers were Daniel Bliss, Henry DiSalvo, Mike Branden, and Sonny Favor. Several deputies worked with shovels in the snowbanks beyond.

“Ready to go, girls?” Robertson asked. “It’s still an hour or two before lunch. Maybe we can finish up at a decent hour.”

DiSalvo stepped forward and said, “First, I’ll have a word with Sally and Sonny.” He waved them over to the far edge of the parking lot and began to speak softly to them next to the family limousine.

Jenny Radcliffe found herself alone with the sheriff. She leaned back against his black-and-white cruiser and lit another cigarette.

Robertson pointed at the Favors, talking secretively with DiSalvo, and said, “They’re cutting you out of the play. Bluebloods stick together.”

Radcliffe laughed outright and wagged her finger at the sheriff. “Nice try, Mr. Policeman,” she said.

“Sally is in more trouble than you realize, young lady.”

“Don’t you ‘young lady’ me, old man,” Jenny barked, heated. “I don’t tolerate fossils like you.”

“Well, I’m sorry,” Robertson said, feigning astonishment. “I only meant that you are over here, and they are over there.”

“Sally will call me when she wants me.”

“Is that how it works, then? You’re her little pet?”

Radcliffe threw her cigarette down and crushed it hard under her boot. “I know what you’re trying to do.”

“I’m trying to tell you what kind of trouble you three kids are in.”

“I already know that.”

“We know about Sally’s fight with her mother.”

“That’s not news.”

“We also know that Sally was going to be cut off. A busted trust. No inheritance.”

“That’s not the way it is. Sally will be fine. She talked to Mr. DiSalvo in the kitchen.”

Robertson unzipped his coat and reached into the breast pocket. He pulled out a small notebook and read some figures there. He angled the page so Jenny could see the numbers, and said, “Cut from a trust fund worth $10,250,000 now, to $4,000 a month until she’s thirty. That’s a motive for murder.”

“Sally hasn’t been cut out of the will. She gets almost half of everything.”

“And how do you know that?”

“Like I said, she talked to Henry DiSalvo.”

“What did you two overhear last night to cause Sally to take on her mother that way?”

“You already know.”

“Busting Sally’s trust?”

“Yes.”

“There has to be more.”

“Well, there isn’t.”

“You’re lying. You were drunk.”

“I was with Sally. We stayed by ourselves all night. Partied in her room.”

“You must have slept some.”

“Not really.”

“Yes, really. Then, sometime later in the night, closer on toward morning, Juliet Favor went downstairs, and Sally knocked her down on the marble floor. Then you two carried her upstairs, and left a blood trail in the staircase carpet.”

“I don’t have to take this,” Jenny said.

Robertson decided that he had her about as worked up as he wanted and said, “Then Sonny is the only one who could have killed her.”

Jenny looked over to Sally and Sonny, who were still talking to DiSalvo beside the black limousine.

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