Evans Above by Rhys Bowen

Author:Rhys Bowen
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

As Evan watched, the Major ran the last few yards to the inn and disappeared through a back door. With only a moment’s hesitation, Evan ran after him.

Major Anderson looked up, startled, as Evan burst into his office. He had taken off his jacket and was now wearing a checked shirt.

“Oh hello, constable,” he said. “Nasty weather, what?”

“Just up on the mountain, were you, major?”

“Yes, I was, as a matter of fact,” Major Anderson said.

Evan glanced around the room to see if he could spot the major’s jacket. He was still out of breath and couldn’t come up with a good reason for asking to see it. Knowing the major, he wouldn’t show it without a search warrant anyway.

“Do you mind telling me what took you up there this morning? And why you were in such a hurry to get down?”

The major gave him a withering look. “I should have thought that both were bloody obvious,” he said. “I always go out for a morning walk if I can find the time. I like to keep fit, you know. It’s good for the image of the place. I headed back down as soon as it started raining. I wasn’t wearing rain gear and I was getting damned wet.”

“Yes, I see your point,” Evan said, feeling his own clammy clothes clinging to his cold body. “So you didn’t get all the way up to the summit?”

“Nowhere near,” the major said. “I don’t have time for more than a brisk couple of miles—up one side of Llyn Llydaw (he pronounced it Chlyn Chlydaw, making it sound more like a couple of sneezes than Welsh words) and back down again.”

“So you didn’t get as far as Glaslyn and you didn’t meet any policemen?”

“I say—what’s all this about?” the major asked. “I thought I’d heard that you’d captured that insane chap. I’ve been telling my climbers that it was perfectly safe to go up there again.”

“We captured the insane chap,” Evan said, “and then we found another body this morning. So either Daft Dai has confessed to something he didn’t do, or there are two murderers.”

The major cleared his throat. “So, uh, was this man pushed over a cliff too?”

“No,” Evan said. “I just wondered if you’d seen anybody acting suspiciously, major? Someone maybe with blood stains on his jacket?”

“No, good Lord, no,” the major said emphatically. “I passed nobody. Of course you don’t see much when the mist is down, do you? Another murder, you say? If this goes on, it’s going to ruin us. Who’s going to want to come here and risk being killed? You want to hurry up and catch him, constable!”

“We’re doing our best, sir,” Evan said. “And if we get cooperation from the public, it will go all the quicker, right?”

“Anything we can do to help, of course,” the major said, opening his hand wide.

“You can tell your staff to keep their eyes open for anything suspicious.” Evan focused his gaze on the major’s hands. “Torn clothing, blood spots, anything that could be used as a weapon—”

“Good Lord, man.

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