Wheels of Peril (Churchill and Pemberley Series Book 5) by Emily Organ

Author:Emily Organ [Organ, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

“Well, I suppose that settles it, Pembers.”

The two ladies and their dog walked back down the garden path.

“Now we’ll have to wait for Mr Speakman to fetch us again,” said Pemberley. “I suppose we could start walking and meet him as he comes up Grindledown Hill.”

“Yes, that’s a good idea. Better than milling around here while we wait. Oh, how frustrating that Mr Cobnut wouldn’t let us look at his shed! It was the last chance we had to prove my innocence to Inspector Mappin.”

“Not necessarily the last chance, Mrs Churchill. There may be other opportunities.”

“Such as? Oh, isn’t he an annoying police inspector? If he hadn’t gone and asked me all those questions about alibis and so on, I wouldn’t have felt the need to prove him wrong. How infuriating.”

The two ladies walked toward the hill and turned a bend in the road that ran alongside the periphery of the Cobnuts’ garden.

“Cresswell End,” mused Churchill. “I really haven’t heard of it at all. I shall have to look it up on a map. Oh, look!”

A large wooden shed loomed into view as they walked past the garden.

“There it is, Pembers. Just ten yards away!”

“But where’s the window?”

“It must be on the other side.”

“Are you sure it’s the right shed?”

“I can’t see any other shed in the garden, can you? And Mr Cobnut said they only had the one outbuilding. Oh, how tempting!”

“Tempting?”

“To go and have a look!”

“Oh no, Mrs Churchill. You mustn’t.”

“What’s between us and the shed at this moment, Pembers? Just a scrap of grass and a little low fence, which would be easily stepped over. I can see how straightforward it would have been for the culprit to tamper with the bicycle now. It’s very accessible.”

“Once he or she had broken into the shed, that is.”

“That was easily achieved through the smashing of the window. Oh, it must be just over on the other side. And look how far the shed is from the house. I’d say it was an easy forty yards. Fifty, even!”

“We really shouldn’t go over there, Mrs Churchill. Mr Cobnut forbade us, and it’s his private property. Besides, he’s a grieving widower. It would be terribly rude to upset him even more than we already have.”

“But he’ll never know, Pembers. He’s up there in that house with the curtains drawn, and the shed is just a hop, skip and a jump away from us. I’d wager that I could nip over there, take a peek at the window and be back here in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.”

“Which is how long, exactly?”

“Two minutes. A mere two minutes.”

“What happens if he spots you?”

“He won’t. He can’t even see out of his house with the curtains drawn. Oh, come on, Pembers. We didn’t pay a shilling’s worth of taxi fare for nothing. And it’ll be another shilling to get back to the village again. I know I can prove Inspector Mappin wrong in just two minutes’ time.”

“And what if the window is enormous?”

“It’s unlikely, isn’t it? And if it is, I’ll just have to think of something else.

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