The Garston Murder Case by H. C. Bailey

Author:H. C. Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Published: 2025-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Much cheered, but looking dreamy rather than his usual alert self, he wandered to the seat in the niche of the arches of the nave and there sat at his ease. After a while he fumbled in his pocket, found a paper of boiled sweets, selected one and sucked. Under that stimulus his face became again wakeful and confident. He looked about him and his prominent eyes gleamed with that pleasure which seemed to Lewis feline.

He stood up, looked warily all round, and delicately made his way among the shrubs and flowers. A syringa was bent and broken as if someone had blundered into it, a patch of columbines was crushed with a footprint.

Mr. Clunk contemplated these injuries and tapped his teeth. It appeared to him that someone had recently made a short cut from the seat in the niche to the drive. Quite recently. The broken columbines were not faded. He gazed back at the smooth stone seat and returned to examine it. “Well, well, well,” he concluded and tripped away to Lewis and his car.

“We had better go and have some lunch, my boy,” he beamed. “Let us go to Bradstock Village.”

Lewis leaned towards him and said confidentially, “Bell’s come on here. And the local. Still inside.”

“So I’m told.” Mr. Glunk got in. “Mrs. Garston is dead, you see. She died mysteriously in the night.”

“I say!” Lewis was shaken from his sardonic composure. “Do you mean murder?”

“Oh yes, certainly, I should think she was murdered.” Mr. Clunk blinked, “Poor soul, I feel quite sure of it.”

“My Lord!” said Lewis with respect. “This case is piling up, sir.”

“A terrible affair, indeed,” Mr. Clunk sighed. “Dear me, I wonder what Superintendent Bell will make of it? But let us be going. I really need my lunch.”

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