Blue Moon by James King

Author:James King
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: FIC000000
Publisher: Dundurn Group
Published: 2000-08-31T21:00:00+00:00

“While I was in the barn I looked out the window and I saw a man coming into the driveway. He got nearly opposite the house and he kind of hesitated for a minute, and then walked towards the house. I stepped out of the barn door and asked him what he wanted. He came towards me, and I walked to meet him. He said the car was stuck in the road.”

Since his work for Mr. Hamilton involved pulling out cars stuck in the mud, he offered his assistance. When Boehler could not get his tractor to start, he hooked up a team of horses and grabbed a rope. When he reached the Packard, he saw another man standing beside it and a woman in the car behind the driver’s wheel. Boehler wrapped the chain around the bumper and the axle of the car and then went over to speak to the lady, who rolled her window down. He instructed her: “Don’t start the car but place it in neutral.” He towed the car about fifty-five yards. The man who had been standing by the car told him he had no money to give him but offered a cigarette. “No,” the young man told him, “I got cigarettes of my own.”

Asked by the prosecutor to describe the woman in the car, the witness remembered she was young with dark hair. While speaking with her, he had noticed two things: a package of cigarettes on her lap and an open handbag, out of which the handle of a revolver stuck out.

The snow was skipping against the high window panes of the courtroom, but that sound was completely drowned out as everyone listened intently to the witness.

Next, Rigney asked the young man: “Is there anything else you saw in the car when you were talking to the driver?”

“On the floor of the back seat there was part of a man’s leg.”

“Why do you say part?”

“I could see only part of it—the part below the knee, the calf of the leg and the foot. It was up against the right rear door and over against the seat, the cushion of the back seat.”

“Were there any socks or anything on it?”

“There was a black oxford shoe and a black sock, and dark blue trousers or black—I couldn’t vouch for the colour, sir. The shoe was directly under the window, leaning against the door. Toe up, heel down, leg placed as if part of a body lying flat on its back.

“Look around the room and see if you can identify the woman in the car you saw.”

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