The Evil Friendship by Vin Packer

Author:Vin Packer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery & Detective, Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Fiction, Lesbian, Intrigue
ISBN: 9781440536991
Publisher: Prologue Books
Published: 2012-12-18T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Statement of Martha Kent, obtained by Sgt. Detective Larson Cudahy at nine p.m. at Kent residence on Alden Road

JUNE 8, 1956

I am fifteen years of age and live with my parents, Dr. and Mrs. William Arthur Kent. For the past nine months I have been a close friend with Mary Drew Edlin. We met at Chillam School, where we were both day girls. She has often been my overnight guest here, and I have been hers at her parents’ home.

In August my mother planned to take me to America to live. Mary Drew and I decided to do something nice for her mother before I was to leave. Yesterday she telephoned me and asked me if I would like to take her mother on an outing with her to Southwark Park.

Shortly before noon I went to the Edlins’. Everything was pleasant. We had lunch, Mary Drew and I, with her father and mother. After Dr. Edlin went back to the office, Mary Drew and I did the dishes and cleaned up. Then we set off for Southwark Park. The time was then about three-fifteen.

We took the “F” bus at the center of town, arriving at the entrance to the park about three-thirty. We went directly to the tearoom for refreshments. Mrs. Edlin had tea, and Mary Drew and I had soft drinks.

After that we decided to walk down into the valley through the trees toward the brook. We were all walking along together, when suddenly Mrs. Edlin lapsed behind. Mary Drew and I continued walking. Mrs. Edlin seemed to be examining something on the path. Mary Drew and I wanted to walk to the brook. We thought perhaps Mrs. Edlin was resting, and we wanted to go on a little more. We were just out of her sight when she called, “Martha, isn’t this yours?” I did not know what she meant. Now I know she was referring to a blue stone I always carried as a good luck piece. She had seen me wear it about my neck on a chain once before, and remarked on it. It had come loose and fallen to the ground, and that was what she had stopped to examine.

I did not realize I had lost anything and I remember shouting back, “What!”

She did not answer. Mary Drew and I asked each other if we should go back and get her, and at one point Mary Drew called, “Mother?”

When there was no answer, we both decided to go back.

As we were walking back in that direction we heard her scream. We ran very fast, but by the time we had reached the spot where she was, she had already been struck down.

We found Mrs. Edlin lying on the ground. Mary Drew became hysterical. There was blood all around Mrs. Edlin’s head. I was shocked. I tried to lift her, and Mary Drew tried to help me. We were not able to move her. There was a great deal of blood, and we were becoming more and more afraid.

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