Postern of Fate by Postern of fate

Author:Postern of fate
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-06-27T08:54:39.923000+00:00

'Would you have read it?'

'Oh, of course I wouldn't,' said Tuppence.

'There you are then,' said Tommy. 'You wouldn't have read it, you'd have just thrown it away, I expect.'

'The Crown of Success. That's one book I remember,' said Tuppence. 'There were two copies of that. Well, let's hope that success will crown our efforts.'

'It seems to me very unlikely. Who killed Mary Jordan? That's the book we'll have to write one day, I suppose?'

'If we ever find out,' said Tuppence gloomily.

Chapter 4

POSSIBILITY OF SURGERY ON MATHILDE

'What are you going to do this afternoon, Tuppence? Go on helping me with these lists of names and dates and things?'

'I don't think so,' said Tuppence. 'I've had all that. It really is most exhausting writing everything down. Every now and then I do get things a bit wrong, don't I?'

'Well, I wouldn't put it past you. You have made a few mistakes.'

'I wish you weren't more accurate than I am, Tommy. I find it so annoying sometimes.'

'What are you going to do instead?'

'I wouldn't mind having a good nap. Oh no, I'm not going to actually relax,' said Tuppence. 'I think I'm going to disembowel Mathilde.'

'I beg your pardon, Tuppence.'

'I said I was going to disembowel Mathilde.'

'What's the matter with you? You seem very set on violence.'

'Mathilde - she's in KK.'

'What do you mean, she's in KK?'

'Oh, the place where all the dumps are. You know, she's the rocking-horse, the one that's got a hole in her stomach.'

'Oh. And - you're going to examine her stomach, is that it?'

'That's the idea,' said Tuppence. 'Would you like to come and help me?'

'Not really,' said Tommy.

'Would you be kind enough to come and help me?' suggested Tuppence.

'Put like that,' said Tommy, with a deep sigh, 'I will force myself to consent. Anyway, it won't be as bad as making lists. Is Isaac anywhere about?'

'No. I think it's his afternoon off. Anyway, we don't want Isaac about. I think I've got all the information I can out of him.'

'He knows a good deal,' said Tommy thoughtfully. 'I found that out the other day, he was telling me a lot of things about the past. Things he can't remember himself.'

'Well, he must be nearly eighty,' said Tuppence. 'I'm quite sure of that.'

'Yes, I know, but things really far back.'

'People have always heard so many things,' said Tuppence. 'You never know if they're right or not in what they've heard. Anyway, let's go and disembowel Mathilde. I'd better change my clothes first because it's excessively dusty and cobwebby in KK and we have to burrow right inside her.'

'You might get Isaac if he's about to turn her upside down, then we could get at her stomach more easily.'

'You really sound as though in your last reincarnation you must have been a surgeon.'

'Well, I suppose it is a little like that. We are now going to remove foreign matter which might be dangerous to the preservation of Mathilde's life, such as is left of it. We might have her painted up and Deborah's twins perhaps would like to ride on her when they next come to stay.

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