Night's Child by Maureen Jennings

Author:Maureen Jennings
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781551991931
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2008-07-17T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Murdoch hurried back to the station. It was time to inform Brackenreid what was going on and he wasn’t looking forward to it. The inspector had the finesse of the old barber surgeons. Oh, got an ingrown toenail, have you? We’d better amputate that foot then. Murdoch had a growing and deep conviction that this case required all the delicacy it could get. One slight misstep and Agnes Fisher might be a goner, if she wasn’t already. To his great relief, however, Gardiner told him that Inspector Brackenreid was at home with a stomach upset. Murdoch beckoned to Constable Crabtree and headed for his cubicle.

He told him the whole story, beginning with Miss Slade’s discovery of the photographs and the disturbing tie to the body found on the lake. Crabtree’s broad face flushed slightly when Murdoch showed him the photographs, but then he looked angry. He had children of his own.

“George, I’d like you to go to visit Agnes’s father. Maybe the sight of a uniform will jolt his memory about his older girl’s whereabouts. Do whatever you need to do, frighten him to within an inch of his life if you have to.”

“Be happy to, sir.”

“There’s a young woman living downstairs. See if she can give you anything to go on. Ask the neighbours if they have any idea where Martha Fisher is in service. If you get the slightest lead, take it.”

“Yes, sir.”

“If that’s a dead end, I want you to start walking up and down the nobby streets. Start with Jarvis. See if anybody has recently taken on a new servant.”

“Can we get some more help, sir?”

Murdoch sighed. “Let’s see how this goes first. The girl might have taken a place not too far from home. You might find her quickly.”

“And if the younger girl is with her?”

“See if she will come down to the station willingly, but if not, you’ll have to make her. She’s in danger.” Murdoch stood up. “I’m afraid I don’t have many leads, just a bad feeling in my stomach that I’m going to acknowledge. I’m going to visit Gregory’s Emporium and see if I can shake anything loose there. Let’s meet back here in a couple of hours.”

“Yes, sir.”

At the entrance to the cubicle, Crabtree hesitated, then turned to Murdoch.

“I have a daughter, as you know, sir. I find it incomprehensible what has been done to Agnes Fisher. I don’t care if my feet fall off, I’m going to find her.”

“Thank you, George.”

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