[MaC] An Almighty Row (correction)

[Brian Schoner]

> Marjorie said "Wait... lemme see..." to Philip as he went
> to wash his bandaged hand.  With Mr. Hodges as an
> observer she looked carefully at Philip's right hand,
> then at the bandages that had wrapped them.

"Fine," Philip muttered.

His right hand was a mass of old burns, the skin darkly scabbed over and the
fingers permanently crooked in a clawlike position. On the inside of the
first and second joints of all four fingers, however, the scabs seemed
recently broken through, revealing a small amount of drying blood and some
of the pink flesh underneath. The bandages showed small amounts of blood in
the appropriate places, and nothing else.

"I slipped on some rubble downstairs while trying to get the police here,
and had to catch myself on the door-frame with this hand," Philip said.
"Hurt like the dickens, it did, but...well, it's not as though it did any
permanent harm to the hand, after all." He smiled grimly. "Mr. Beaman and
Mr. Davis were there, they can tell you. Now, may I wash this hand? If there
is any more poison lying around, I'd prefer not to get it into an open
wound..."