Root of All Evil by E.X. Ferrars
Author:E.X. Ferrars
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
Published: 2020-07-09T00:00:00+00:00
He found that besides Derek, Frances, Quentin, Georgina and Patricia had arrived. He sensed that they had been engaged in a fierce discussion before he appeared, which was broken off abruptly as he came into the room, leaving them all sitting awkwardly silent. They all looked at him questioningly, as if they expected him to have something to tell them, but all he could think of saying was, âGood morning.â
It took Frances a moment to have the presence of mind to say, âItâs terrible, just terrible, isnât it? I still canât really believe it.â
âProfessor Basnett, is it true about the diamonds?â Georgina demanded.
âThat theyâve been stolen?â he said. âApparently.â
âYou see!â she cried, looking round on the others as if she had scored a point. âDidnât I always say she ought to keep them in the bank? Didnât I always say it was crazy to keep them here?â
âWe all said that,â Quentin said. âYou werenât the only genius among us.â
âBut she hadnât left them to you,â Georgina said. âYou didnât really care what happened to them.â
âAnd now theyâre all you care about,â he said. âYou donât really care that sheâs been murdered.â
âDo you?â she said. âHavenât you been saying for the last year or two that she couldnât live much longer and how useful it would be if she didnât?â
âI never said anything of the kind,â he said. âAnyway, not seriously. We all said that kind of thing. And none of us dreamt that the poor old thing would be murdered.â
âChildren, children!â Frances cried. âDonât talk like that! Donât quarrel now of all times.â
âDo they quarrel much?â Patricia asked in a tone of calm interest. âIâve never thought of Quentin as quarrelsome.â
âTheyâve quarrelled all their lives,â Frances said. âIâm sure I donât know why. Isnât there some phrase for it psychologists useâsibling something or other? I know it somehow makes one feel itâs all the parentsâ fault. Psychologists always do that. They blame everything on the parents instead of ever saying the children were just born like that. I canât think of anything Derek or I ever did to make the two of them so quarrelsome. I mean, we always treated the two of them just the same, we never favoured one more than the other.â
âDarling Ma, donât you understand Georgina and I are devoted to one another?â Quentin said. âOur quarrelling is just the way we show it.â
âYouâve never quarrelled with me,â Patricia said, âso perhaps you arenât as devoted to me as you say.â It was said lightly, but her eyes were serious.
âBalls!â Georgina said. âHeâs so devoted to me that if Iâm murdered tonight heâll only think that that will double his legacy, as I suppose it would. I donât understand the legal side of those things. Professor Basnett, do you think the diamonds were insured, and if they were, will I get the insurance money or will that go into the estate as a whole?â
âIâm afraid I donât know anything about it,â Andrew answered. âI imagine they
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