The Complete Miss Marple Collection by Agatha Christie

Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Crime, Historical
ISBN: 9780062332820
Google: sW1AAQAAQBAJ
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

Twenty-six

I

“Now, Elspeth, you’re quite clear as to what I want you to do?”

“I’m clear enough,” said Mrs. McGillicuddy, “but what I say to you is, Jane, that it seems very odd.”

“It’s not odd at all,” said Miss Marple.

“Well, I think so. To arrive at the house and to ask almost immediately whether I can—er—go upstairs.”

“It’s very cold weather,” Miss Marple pointed out, “and after all, you might have eaten something that disagreed with you and—er—have to ask to go upstairs. I mean, these things happen. I remember poor Louisa Felby came to see me once and she had to ask to go upstairs five times during one little half hour. That,” added Miss Marple parenthetically, “was a bad Cornish pasty.”

“If you’d just tell me what you’re driving at, Jane,” said Mrs. McGillicuddy.

“That’s just what I don’t want to do,” said Miss Marple.

“How irritating you are, Jane. First you make me come all the way back to England before I need—”

“I’m sorry about that,” said Miss Marple; “but I couldn’t do anything else. Someone, you see, may be killed at any moment. Oh, I know they’re all on their guard and the police are taking all the precautions they can, but there’s always the outside chance that the murderer might be too clever for them. So you see, Elspeth, it was your duty to come back. After all, you and I were brought up to do our duty, weren’t we?”

“We certainly were,” said Mrs. McGillicuddy, “no laxness in our young days.”

“So that’s quite all right,” said Miss Marple, “and that’s the taxi now,” she added, as a faint hoot was heard outside the house.

Mrs. McGillicuddy donned her heavy pepper-and-salt coat and Miss Marple wrapped herself up with a good many shawls and scarves. Then the two ladies got into the taxi and were driven to Rutherford Hall.

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