Morality For Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith

Author:Alexander McCall Smith [Smith, Alexander McCall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Botswana
Published: 2000-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

11

Mma Potokwane Obliges

The Government Man had given Mm a Ramotswe a telephone number which she could use at any time and which would circumvent his secretaries and assistants. That afternoon she tried the number for the first time, and got straight through to her client. He sounded pleased to hear from her, and expressed his pleasure that the investigation had begun.

“I would like to go down to the house next week,” said Mma Ramotswe. “Have you contacted your father?”

“I have done that,” said the Government Man. “I have told him that you will be coming to stay for a rest. I told him that you have found many votes for me amongst the women and that I must repay you. You will be well looked after.”

Details were agreed, and Mma Ramotswe was given directions to the farm, which lay off the Francistown Road, to the north of Pilane.

“I am sure that you will find evidence of wickedness,” said the Government Man. “Then we can save my poor brother.”

Mma Ramotswe was noncommittal. “We shall see. I can’t guarantee anything. I shall have to see.”

“Of course, Mma,” the Government Man said hurriedly. “But I have complete confidence in your ability to find out what is happening. I know that you will be able to find evidence against that wicked woman. Let’s just hope that you are in time.”

After the telephone call, Mma Ramotswe sat at her desk and stared at the wall. She had just taken a whole week out of her diary, and that meant that all the other tasks on her list were consigned to an uncertain future. At least she need not worry about the garage for the time being, nor indeed need she worry about dealing with enquiries at the agency. Mma Makutsi could do all that and if, as was increasingly often the case these days, she was under a car at the time, then the apprentices had been trained to answer the telephone on her behalf.

But what about Mr J.L.B. Matekoni? That was the one really difficult issue which remained untouched, and she realised that she would have to do something quickly. She had finished reading the book on depression and she now felt more confident in dealing with its puzzling symptoms. But there was always a danger with that illness that the sufferer might do something rash – the book had been quite explicit about that – and she dreaded the thought of Mr J.L.B. Matekoni being driven to such extremes by his feelings of lowness and self-disesteem. She would have to get him to Dr Moffat somehow, so that treatment could begin. But when she had told him that he was to see a doctor, he had flatly refused. If she tried again, she would probably get the same response.

She wondered whether there was any way of getting him to take the pills by trickery. She did not like the idea of using underhand methods with Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, but when a per son’s reason was disturbed, then she thought that any means were justified in getting them better.

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