[MaC] An Almighty Row (correction)

[Brenda McCartney]

--- Mel Mason <goldfired at oxmust.co.uk> wrote:

> > "Perhaps," said Oswald grimly, "you should explain, Mrs Evans."
> >
> > Vangie shrugged. "It was known," she said quietly, "that women in
> need of 
> > help....certain kinds of..." She took a deep breath. "That women
> who were 
> > expecting who didn't wish to be expecting, could go to a certain
> chemist, 
> > and...not expect a great deal of trouble about the poisons
> register."
> >
> > "It was you," breathed Esme.  "You wanted to buy arsenic ... I told
> you it 
> > wouldn't work ... not for that ... "
> >
> > Vangie shrugged. "It worked...well enough." She turned to Pamela.
> "To 
> > answer your question, Lady Pamela, I haven't killed anyone tonight.
> I will 
> > admit to temptation. More than once. But not to acting on it." She
> looked 
> > at Oswald. "And to answer yours, Mr. Skeffington-Nottle, there was
> a 
> > chemist's bag in my medicine cabinet containing a bottle with a
> poison 
> > label on it -- but no other markings. I think you'll find it isn't
> there 
> > now. But there was someone in my bathroom dressing the wound on his
> 
> > hand...and taking a very long time about it. And he had the bottle
> in his 
> > jacket pocket, only a little while ago." She smiled tightly. "He
> showed it 
> > to me, pretending to be 'worried' I had such a thin. And as I said,
> 
> > Philip, I do hope you wore gloves when you handled it...I always
> do...but 
> > I don't think you had time."
> 
> Oswald gave her a long look, and then turned to Philip Powell.
> 
> "Perhaps you'd show us that wound on your hand, sir.  Lord Benwick
> showed 
> his ... and it was as he said - the mark of a stab wound from a
> knife. 
> Perhaps yours will be similarly innocuous ... or perhaps it will show
> the 
> mark of a ligature pulled tight - on another's neck." 


Cyril said nothing, but the inquiring look toward Officer Powell
indicated his agreement with Oswald.


		
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