[MaC] Interviewing Fitzroy
Mel Mason
goldfired at oxmust.co.uk
Mon Jan 3 20:00:31 EST 2005
>> As she stood up, Lucinda Skeffinton-Nottle moved
>> forward. "Mr Beaman - I think a couple of us should
>> go too." She looked at him significantly.
>> "Independent witnesses."
>>
>> "I agree wholeheartedly, Lucinda," Nicola said,
>> walking after the Beamans. The changing of the tea
>> leaves had not gone unnoticed and Nicola's inquisitive
>> eyes were now fixed sharply on Florence Beaman. Though
>> she couldn't imagine what motive the woman might have
>> had for doing in Nola, she was now looking like a very
>> strong candidate for Marty Fitzroy's poisoning. Nicola
>> wouldn't be angry with her if she was (in fact, had
>> the woman been an American, she would have personally
>> written in a nomination for Florence for the
>> Congressional Medal of Honor), but there were quite a
>> few questions she wanted answered.
>
> "Who else had tea at the same time Fitzroy did?" Marion Mauberley
> asked sharply. "And don't let too many people handle the pot or
> cup. Fingerprints. Does anyone have the means to test for
> them?"
>
Lady Pamela did," said Oswald from his position at the top of the stairs,
still watching the bathroom door. "And she spilled most of it over her
dress - perhaps fortunately."
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