[MaC] An Almighty Row (correction)

[Brian Schoner]

> 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." 

"How *dare* you," Philip snarled. "Yes, I have the damned bottle in my
pocket, because I was trying to avoid making *you* the prime suspect in an
attempted murder! But it wasn't in any bag when I found it, as I'm sure the
always-helpful Miss Higgins can attest, since she was there when I took it
not ten minutes ago. So if this isn't a load of rubbish, someone took it out
of the bag before I ever saw it...and that person, whoever it is, is likely
to be your killer. Unless, of course, you're blaming me in order to cover
your own tracks. And I wonder...were you really only joking about the
strychnine in the kitchen cupboard? Shall we have a look?"