Lawrence Sanders by The Fourth Deadly Sin (txt)

Author:The Fourth Deadly Sin (txt) [Sin, The Fourth Deadly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

After you left, I tried to remember everything I had said, to make sure I hadn’t unintentionally led you astray.”

She paused.

“And?” he said.

“Well, it probably means nothing, but you asked if I had noticed any change in Simon over the last six months or year, and I said no. But then after thinking it over, I realized there had been a change . Perhaps it was so gradual that I really wasn’t aware of it.”

“But now you feel there was a change?” Delaney asked.

“Yes, I do. Thinking over this past year, I realize Simon had become-well, distant and preoccupied is the only way I can describe it. He had been very concerned about his patients, and I suppose at the time. I thought it was just overwork that was bothering him. But yes, there was a change in him. I don’t imagine it means anything, but it disturbed me that I hadn’t given you a strictly accurate answer, so I thought I better tell you.”

“I’m glad you did,” Delaney said gravely.

“Like you, I don’t know if it means anything or not, but every little bit helps.”

“Well!” Diane Ellerbee said, smiling brightly.

“Now I do feel better, getting that off my conscience.”

She drained her gimlet, set the glass aside, and rose. They stood up. She offered her hand to Monica, “Thank you so much for letting me barge in,” she said.

“You have a lovely, lovely home, I wish the two of you would come up to Brewster soon and see our place. It’s not at its best in winter but Simon and I worked so hard to make it something special, I’d like to have you see it. Could you do that?”

“We’d be delighted,” Monica said promptly.

“Thank you.”

“Let’s wait for a weekend when no blizzards are predicted,” Diane Ellerbee said, laughing.

“The first good Saturday-all right?”

“We don’t have a car,” Delaney said.

“Would you object if Sergeant Boone and his wife drove us up?”

“Object? I’d love it! I have a marvelous cook, and Simon and I laid down some good wines. I enjoy having company, and frankly it’s lonely up there now. So let’s all plan on getting together.”

“Whenever you say,” Monica said.

“I’m sorry you have to leave so soon. Drive carefully.”

“I always do,” Dr. Ellerbee said lightly.

“Good night, all.”

Delaney locked and bolted the front door behind her.

“What an intelligent woman!” Monica said when he came back to the living room.

“Isn’t she, Edward?”

“She is that.”

“You’d like to see her Brewster home, wouldn’t you?”

“Very much. The Boones will.drive us up. We’ll make a day of it.”

“What she said about her husband changing-does that mean anything?”

“I have no idea.”

“She really is beautiful, isn’t she?”

“So beautiful,” he said solemnly, “that she scares me.”

“Thanks a lot, buster,” she said.

“I obviously don’t scare you.

“Obviously,” he said, and headed toward the study door.

“Hey,” Monica said, “I thought you weren’t going to work tonight.”

“Just for a while,” he said, frowning.

“Some things I want to check.”

Detective Benjamin Calazo was a month away from retirement and dreading it.

He came from a family of policemen.

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