The Meriwether Mystery by Kay Cleaver Strahan

Author:Kay Cleaver Strahan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781789129113
Publisher: Phocion Publishing
Published: 2019-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

“But how odd of you, Oswald!” Vicky said. “I mean—did you believe that there was a murderer among us?”

He closed the door noiselessly and flushed and dropped some of his papers. As he stooped to pick them up I thought again what a gentle little man he was, stumbling awkwardly but softly through life with his eyes on the stars. “Well,” he Anally answered Vicky’s question, though he spoke to me, “what could I think?”

“I thought,” I replied, “that Mr. Charvan came into the house last evening while Vicky and I were out putting her car in the garage. That he brought someone in with him. That they quarreled. That Mr. Charvan’s companion shot him and escaped. It seems the only sensible solution, and a fairly simple one as well.”

“Yes, sir,” Oswald said, but with no excess of credence. “It seems queer, though, that he should have left the pass key on the telephone table after he’d cut the cord to delay our getting information to the police. The one seems to balance—cancel—the other. If we assume that there was only one person involved.”

“As for that,” said Vicky, “it is all strange. But that doesn’t give you reason for thinking that one of us—one of your friends—would—well, it is dreadful to say, commit a murder. Does it?”

It has never been my practice to waste heartaches on the young men whom Vicky has been unable to love. But as he appealed to her, “Vicky—“ and repeated, “Vicky——“ there was in the despairing adoration of his voice something that made me sickly sorry for him. True, she had a part to play; but she was playing it far too well and too coolly.

I said, “You have been working on the horoscopes for the members of the household?” and led him safely back to his heavens again.

“Yes, sir. But I lack knowledge. I don’t know enough. All this trouble, worry, distress must show in every chart here—and it doesn’t. I mean—I can’t find it. The stars tell all, and they never lie. But—I’d thought it would be obvious, a tragedy of this sort. It shows, slightly, in Evadne Parnham’s chart—I’d call it trouble for her, though not tragedy. And she has some good money aspects in force now that would make me think I must be misreading her chart entirely. I happen to know that she’s worried financially at present. Seriously worried, you know. Trouble shows in Paul’s, all right. He has three hard directional aspects in force right now. His Moon squares his Sun, from the third house to the twelfth. His Sun squares his Mars from the first to the third, and his Mercury is squaring his Moon from the first to the fourth. Transiting Saturn, the last lunation, was in conjunction with his Mars, and transiting Uranus was opposing his progressed Sun.”

“And is all this serious?” said I, merely to keep him in his heavens.

“Yes, sir. In a chart of a lower type-Well, no matter about that. Vicky, of

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