Unholy Ghosts by D M Greenwood

Author:D M Greenwood [Greenwood, D M]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Reference
Publisher: Ostara Publishing
Published: 2010-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Jerome Topstock

Theodora stepped out into the warm air of the late summer evening.There was a smell of stubble and fen grass. Far off she heard the drone of a tractor working late or set for home. The Rectory, when she reached it ten minutes later, was as silent and calm as when she had visited it with the Archdeacon on Saturday evening. A late crow said a word as her entry through the open drive gate disturbed his first sleep. There was no other sound. She had seen Amy drive up to the house on Saturday morning. Had she then driven on here? And if so why? And where had Amy been the previous night when her husband was being killed? Had she been in any way party to that act? Where had she spent Friday night? Above all, where was she now?

Theodora felt no fear at entering the house. She agreed with Gilbert that the souls of the dead are in the hand of God and, as for herself,she was persuaded that there is nothing in this world or out of it which can separate us from the ove of God. Ghosts could ne’er affright her.After all, she and the Archdeacon had been into the house once already.She was more oncerned about the police. They had, presumably, by now searched the Rectory? Had they done that after finding the car in the Broad or before? They couldn’t have done it too promptly or else she and the Archdeacon would have met them after their ill-fated call on the Dersinghams. If the police had searched later, on the other hand, ought they not to have found her and Treadwell’s fingerprints? But perhaps they simply hadn’t been able to check out all the prints they’d found anyway. Ought she to have mentioned their visit to pruce? She could hardly have done so without the Archdeacon’s leave. She wondered whether he had mentioned it to the Inspector privately. erhaps he had also mentioned the fact that they had observed Dersingham,presumably not too many hours after the discovery of the car in the Broad, with trousers which were dripping wet? Treadwell certainly hadn’t mentioned any of this when Spruce had interviewed them with the Bishop.Could that have been clerical discretion, Theodora wondered, or clerical deviousness? Had he and the Bishop already decided even before Spruce came that they would set Theodora on (one, after all, of their own kind and bound by clerical obedience) rather than helping the normal, if crude, processes of the law? She realised, as she had mentioned to Laura, she was quite as guilty as her superiors of being less than open with the police. Perhaps she should try and see Spruce and put matters right. If Laura trusted him so should she. However, she put such thoughts aside for the moment and concentrated on the task in hand.

Would the police have left a man at the Rectory in case Amy returned? Not unfamiliar with the habits of police forces both in East Africa and West London, she felt it was, on balance, unlikely.

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