Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Elanor Dymott

Author:Elanor Dymott
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780224094030
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Published: 2012-04-04T22:00:00+00:00

Within minutes of Harry handing him the letters and telling him who he thought had sent them, Haddon went over to Hall, where dinner had already started, and he called Rachel, Anthony and Cissy out to the front and told them they were to report to him at nine the following morning. He wouldn’t ordinarily have given them any notice of the interviews but for the fact that the following day was a Saturday, and it fell technically after the end of term. Even though the three of them were likely to be staying up for the Commemoration Ball that was to be held that night, it would be difficult to track them down if they left early for the summer vacation. Haddon decided against calling them in straight away, since he wanted some time to talk with Harry in order to make a plan. He took the precaution, though, of issuing the three of them with the sternest of threats and making it clear that their attendance at his rooms the following morning was compulsory, and that a failure to present themselves would lead to their immediate and permanent exclusion from College.

Harry came clean with Haddon that evening. He told him everything about the letters, and about the change in the dynamic between the three of them. He also made the suggestion that, in his opinion, the letters had been the work of all three of them acting together. He hadn’t managed a particularly convincing rationale for the tardiness with which he’d informed Haddon, finding himself unable to explain the particular bond that had arisen in those tutorials, and Haddon was generous to a fault in his avoidance of any kind of comment on the reluctance Harry had shown to punish the three of them earlier in the term.

After he and Harry had talked it through, Haddon announced that his intention was that they should each interview one of the three, simultaneously, in separate rooms, and then swap and do the same again before moving on to the other. ‘We shall find them out, Harry, you’ll see. It won’t be difficult,’ he said the next morning, walking with Harry back to his rooms after breakfast and setting up a desk and a chair in a side room off the drawing room. Harry’s suggestion that such tactics were hardly necessary was met with derision by Haddon, though in the end he was proved to be right about this, if nothing else. His protest having been dismissed, Harry went through with the exercise as Haddon had dictated he should, taking Cissy into the side room while Rachel waited in the corridor and Haddon set to work on Anthony in the drawing room. Harry realised fairly quickly that he wasn’t up to the task. All that Cissy would say was that first, because the actual sending of the letters had been nothing to do with her, she didn’t need to go into any more detail; that second, if necessary, she would contact

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