Dead Water (The Ngaio Marsh Collection) by Ngaio Marsh
Author:Ngaio Marsh [Marsh, Ngaio]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Series - Ngaio Marsh, Crime
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2009-12-24T00:00:00+00:00
II
When Wally had absorbed his second ice-cream they left the tea-room by a door that, as it turned out, led into the back garden.
Coombe said: âWeâve come the wrong way,â but Alleyn was looking at a display of greyish undergarments hung out to dry. A woman of unkempt appearance was in the yard. She stared at them with bleared disfavour.
âPrivate,â she said and pointed to a dividing fence. âYouâm trespassing.â
âIâm sorry, Mrs Trehern,â Jenny said. âWe made a mistake.â
Trehern had come out through a back door. âGet in, woman,â he said. âGet in.â He took his wife by her arm and shoved her back into the house. âThereâs the gate,â he said to Alleyn. âOver yon.â
Alleyn had wandered to the clothes-line. A surplus length dangled from the pole. It had been recently cut.
âI wonder,â he said, âif you could spare me a yard of this. The bumper-bar on my carâs loose.â
âBeâant none to spare. Us needs it. Rotten anyways and no good to you. Thereâs the gate.â
âThank you,â Alleyn said and they went out.
âWas it the same as the trip-wire?â he asked Coombe.
âCertainly was: but I reckon they all use it.â
âItâs old but itâs been newly cut. Have you kept the trip-wire?â
âYes.â
âHow was it fastened?â
âWith iron pegs. They use them when they dry out their nets.â
âWell, letâs move on, shall we?â
Patrick was sitting in a dinghy alongside the jetty, looking aloof and disinterested. Wally made up to a new pair of sightseers.
âThat was very nice of you,â Alleyn said to Jenny. âAnd Iâm more than obliged.â
âI hated it. Mr Alleyn, he really isnât responsible. You can see what heâs like.â
âDo you think he threw the stones at Miss Emily the other night?â
She said, very unhappily: âYes.â
âSo do I.â
âBut nothing else. Iâm sure: nothing more than that.â
âYou may be right. Iâd be very grateful, by the way, if youâd keep the whole affair under your hat. Will you do that?â
âYes,â she said slowly. âAll right. Yes, of course, if you say so.â
âThank you very much. One other thing. Have you any idea who the Green Lady could have been?â
Jenny looked startled. âNo, I havenât. Somehow or another Iâve sort of forgotten to wonder. She may not have been real at all.â
âWhat did he say about her?â
âOnly that she was very pretty and her hair shone in the sun. And that she said his warts would be all gone.â
âNothing else?â
âNo â nothing.â
âHas he got that sort of imagination â to invent her?â
Jenny said slowly: âI donât think he has.â
âI donât think so either.â
âNot only that,â Jenny said. âHeâs an extraordinarily truthful little boy. He never tells lies â never.â
âThatâs an extremely valuable piece of information,â Alleyn said. âNow go and placate your young man.â
âIâll be blowed if I do. He can jolly well come off it,â she rejoined but Alleyn thought she was not altogether displeased with Patrick. He watched her climb down into the dinghy. It ducked and bobbed towards the far point of the bay. She looked up and waved to him.
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