Through the Wall by Patricia Wentworth
Author:Patricia Wentworth [Wentworth, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4532-2380-2
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
Published: 2011-09-05T16:00:00+00:00
TWENTY-FOUR
BEFORE GOING UP to Cove House Miss Silver had some preparations to make. Richard Cunningham left her to them and went back to be firm with Marian Brand.
‘She will be here by four o’clock, and whether you like it or not, my dear, I’ve brought a suitcase, and I’m staying too. I can sleep on the study sofa.’
Marian looked at him. She had much ado not to show all the relief she felt. She said gravely,
‘There are two spare rooms. I will put you in the one Cyril had.’
‘Isn’t he coming back?’
‘Not today, or tomorrow. I don’t feel that we can look any further ahead than that.’
When Ethel Burkett came up from the beach Miss Silver was packing a well worn suit-case. She exclaimed, and received an affectionate smile.
‘So fortunate that your friend Miss Blundell should be arriving this evening. Really quite providential. It would have distressed me to feel that I was leaving you alone.’
‘But, Auntie—’
‘A professional call. And you will enjoy a tête-à-tête with your friend. I shall not be at any distance, and shall hope to return before Miss Blundell leaves.’
Her packing completed and lunch disposed of, she rang up the exchange and gave the Chief Constable of Ledshire’s private number. When his familiar voice came on the line she allowed no restless hurry to intrude upon the occasion.
‘My dear Randall—’
‘Miss Silver! Now where have you dropped from? You don’t sound like London.’
‘No—I’m at Farne with my niece Ethel and her little girl. Such delightful weather. But tell me of yourselves. Rietta is well?’
‘Blooming. And the boy is immense. We have begun to call him George.’
‘And your dear mother? … And Isabel—and Margaret?’
He had with these two sisters once shared a schoolroom over which Miss Silver presided. Her voice could still evoke its memories. The delicate spoiled little boy whom she had taken over had outgrown these drawbacks. She would never have admitted to having any favourite among her pupils, but she had remained on terms of close affection with the March family, and during the last few years had been more than once brought into what she herself would have described as professional association with Randall. His feelings for her were those of affection, gratitude, and the deepest respect, with an occasional tinge of impatience. She had a way of cropping up in the middle of a case and disrupting it. The fact that she was often right did not really make things any better.
As he answered her warm enquiries he could not help wondering whether her call was a purely friendly one. He would like to see her, Rietta would like to see her, and they would both like to exhibit George in the breath-taking performance of pushing himself up on to his feet, staggering three steps, and sitting down bump with a fat face wreathed in smiles. So far the natural man. But the Chief Constable could not help remembering that a rather well known young woman had just been murdered no more than a mile from Farne.
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