Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories by Colin Dexter

Author:Colin Dexter [Dexter, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780804113090
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 1993-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

"You seem to me to be taking an unconscionably long time in putting forward your own hypothesis," snapped Holmes, somewhat testily.

"You are right," admitted the other.

"Let me beat about the bush no longer! You have never felt emotion akin to love for any woman, Sherlock not even for the Adler woman and you are therefore deprived of the advantages of those who like myself are able to understand both the workings of the male and also the female mind. Five years her superior in age her step-father; only five years. Now one of the sadnesses of womankind is their tendency to age more quickly and less gracefully than men; and one of the truths about mankind in general is that if you put one of each sex, of roughly similar age, in reasonable proximity .. . And if one of them is the fair Miss van Alien then you are inviting a packet of trouble. Yet such is what took place in the Wyndham menage. Mrs. Wyndham was seventeen years older than her young husband; and perhaps as time went by some signs and tokens of this disproportionate difference in their ages began to manifest themselves. At the same time, it may be assumed that Wyndham himself could not help being attracted however much at first he sought to resist the temptation by ,1 the very winsome and vivacious young girl who was his step-daughter. It would almost certainly have been Wyndham fjs himself who introduced Miss van Alien to the part-time '1 duties she undertook for Cook and Marchant where the two of them were frequently thrown together, away from the restraints of wife and home, and with a result which it is not at all difficult to guess. Certain it is, in my own view, that Wyndham sought to transfer his affections from the mother to the daughter; and in due course it was the daughter who decided that whatever her own affections might be in the matter she must in all honour leave her mother and stepfather. Hence the great anxiety to get out to dances and parties and the like activities which Wyndham objected tofor the obvious reason that he wished to have Miss van Alien as close by himself for as long as he possibly could. Now you, Sherlock, assume that this objection arose as a result of the interest accruing from the New Zealand securities and you are guessing, are you not? Is it not just possible that Wyndham has money of his own find out, brother! and that what he craves for is not some petty addition to his wealth, but the love of a young woman with whom he has fallen rather hopelessly in love? You see, she took him in, just as she took you in, Sherlock for you swallowed everything that calculating little soul reported."

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