The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife by Liese Sherwood-Fabre
Author:Liese Sherwood-Fabre
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-9984112-8-6
Publisher: Little Elm Press LLC
The sun was fully up and flooding into my bedroom when Mother came in the next morning. I rubbed my eyes and sat up in bed. “Why didn’t anyone wake me?”
“With your having to miss breakfast, I thought it best to let you sleep a little longer,” she said, and kissed me on the forehead. Her mouth turned down. “Quite a normal temperature. How unfortunate we have no way to make you appear feverish. We can however, have you wear yesterday’s clothing. At least then you’ll appear disheveled. Remember, you have a bad case of dyspepsia.”
I slid from my bed, and as if on cue, my stomach rumbled the moment my feet touched the floor.
“Very good,” she said with a smile. “I heard that one myself.” She placed an arm about my shoulders. “I truly do appreciate your willingness to participate in our little charade.”
“I don’t mind it so much,” I said. “I do want to catch whoever killed poor Mrs. Brown.”
She pulled me closer. “You’re growing up so quickly. I almost have to reach up to touch your shoulder. In a little bit, you’ll be taller than I. You get your height from the Parker side.” Facing me, she studied me more intently and touched my nose. “Also the nose. A fine aristocratic example, if ever there was one.”
Another squeeze on my shoulders, and she left me to dress.
When I met her downstairs in the kitchen for Mr. Simpson to drive us to the Harvingshams’, the scent of baking bread greeted me as well. My stomach gave another protest.
“Excellent. Perhaps we should have a loaf with us? You can sniff it just before the surgeon examines you.”
I opened my mouth to protest then remembered my promise to Constance to bring some and nodded my assent.
“I’ll meet you at the carriage.”
Mr. Harvingsham’s house was on the edge of town. I supposed he chose the spot to be near both those living in the village as well as in the countryside. His surgery had its own entrance as a separate wing on his first floor. I followed my mother into a small waiting room. A man sat in one of the chairs lining the room’s walls, his hand wrapped in what appeared to be a rag. Mother and I took two chairs more or less across from him. Groans emanated from a closed door at the far end of the room.
“That’s my mate in there,” the man said, nodding to the door. “We were shoein’ a horse when the beast bit me, then kicked poor Joshua in the chest. I think he broke all my fingers, but I’m more afeared for Joshua.”
Another groan from the other room made the waiting man wince, and I involuntarily copied him. Mother’s hands gripped her reticule until her knuckles grew white.
“I suppose we could’ve gone to the cottage hospital, but since the surgeon had already visited there for the day, we came here.”
“I’m sorry, Sherry. I hadn’t considered him having patients with such urgent needs.
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