Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer

Author:Georgette Heyer [Heyer, Georgette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Georgette Heyer, Action Adventure Mystery & Detective
ISBN: 9780586026939
Google: UX0-PgAACAAJ
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Publisher: Grafton
Published: 1937-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Ten

Harding shut the door behind Mrs. Twining, and walked slowly back to the table. "Well, Sergeant?"

The Sergeant pursed his lips. "You want to know how it struck me, sir?"

"Very much."

"Well, I'd say she behaved very cool," said the Sergeant, thinking it over. "Very cool indeed. I don't say it didn't happen just as she said, but it would have seemed to me more natural-like if she'd run out of the room just as soon as she saw the General was dead."

"I agree with you. At the same time she gives me the inipression of being a woman of considerable strength of character." He hunted through his papers for Fay's statement. "She was keeping something back, of course. from what I can gather, Sir Arthur's temper was not quite so evanescent as she would have had us believe."

" No, sir," said the Sergeant doubtfully.

"So quickly over," Harding said.

"Quickly over? That I will say it was not, sir! I wouldn't like to speak ill of the dead, but Sir Arthur was a fair terror. Quite a byword, you might say."

The door opened; Fay came in, and stood for moment looking across the room at Harding. In a black dress she had a pathetically frail appearance. Her eyes were deeply shadowed, her lips rather bloodless.

"Lady Billington-Smith?" Harding said. "Will come and sit down?" He spoke in a reassuring way, quite unexpected by one who had had experience so far only of Superintendent Lupton's methods.

"Thank you," Fay said in a low voice, and took the chair Mrs. Twining had occupied. "I understand you want to ask me some questions. I - made a statement to the Superintendent yesterday. I don't know - if there is anything more you want to ask me."

"I'm sorry, Lady Billington-Smith, but I'm afraid I must ask you certain questions - some of them perhaps rather distressing to you," Harding said. "Will you try and answer them quite frankly - and believe I wouldn't put them to you unless I considered it necessary?"

Her eyes fluttered to his face again, surprised and grateful. "Yes, of course. I quite understand."

He sat down. "I want to know first, Lady Billingtui Smith: were you upon good terms with your husband at the time of his death?"

The suddenness of the question startled her. "What do you mean?" she faltered.

"I am not insinuating anything," he said. "I only want you to tell me the truth."

"My husband — my husband was not an easy man to deal with," Fay said with difficulty. "We had our disagreements sometimes, but we were not on bad terms."

"Your husband was, I understand, a very hot tempered man? You had quarrels fairly frequently?"

"I - I am not a quarrelsome person, Inspector. My liusband had a way of - blustering, when he was annoyed. We did not quarrel."

"You mean that your husband was inclined to - may I say - scold you, when anything happened to annoy him?"

"Yes. But it was nothing. He didn't mean it."

"On the morning of July

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