The Wilmington morning star. [volume], July 18, 1947, Page 15, Image 15

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,i juVEM'i'-O'NE
uercule Poirot and Inspector
fringe went together through tilt
0 tnut woods to t h e swimming
o’ The thing that had been John
rvislow but which was now “the
rV- had been photographed and
60 ' ured and written about and
Cammed by the police surgeon
d ha(j now been taken away to
'n ‘mortuary. The swimming
,1 Poirot thought, looked curi
p“lv innocent. Everything about
®dav he thought, had been
♦ran*ely fluid. Except John
fhristow—'he had not been fluid
T-ven in death he had been pur
* seful and objective. The swim
p nj pool was not now pre-emi
aantly a swimming pool; it was
place where John Christow’s
body had lain a‘;d where bis life
hiood had welled away over con
„ete into artificially blue water.
Artificial—for a moment Poirot
•rasped at the word. . . . Yes,
,* cre had been something arti
ficial about it all. As though—
A man in a bathing suit came
w to the inspector.
"Here’s the revolver, sir,” he
■eid.
Grange took the dripping object
gingerly.__
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'No hope of Ur.ger-prints now,”
he remarked, .‘but luckily ii
doesn’t matter in this case. Mrs
Christow was actually holding the
revolver when you arrived, wasn’t
she, M. Poirot?”
‘‘Yes.”
“Identification of the revolver is
the next thing,” said Grange. “I
should imagine Sir Henry will be
able to do that for us. She got it
from his study, I should say.”
He cast a glance around the
pool.
“Now, let’s have that again to
be quite clear. The path below
the pool comes up from the farm
and that’s the way Lady Angkatel]
came. The other two, Mr. Edward
Angkatell and Miss Savernake,
came down from the woods—but
not together. He came by the left
hand path, and she by the right
hand one which leads out of the
long flower walk above the house.
But they were both standing on
the far side of the pool when you
airived?”
“Yes.”
“And this path here beside the
pavilion leads on to Podder’s
Lane. Right—we’ll go along it.”
As they walked, Grange spoke,
without excitement, just with
knowledge and quiet pessimism.
“Never like these cases much,’’
he said. “Had one last year—down
near Ashridge. Retired military
man he was — distinguished ca
reer. Wife was the nice, quiet, old
fashioned kind, sixty-five, gray
hair — rather pretty hair with a
wave in it. Did a lot of gardening.
One day she goes up to his room,
gets out his service- revolver, and
walks out into the garden and
shoots him. Just like that! A good
deal behind it, of course, that one
had to dig out. Sometimes they
think up some fool story about a
tramp! We pretend to accept it, oi*
cousi keep things quiet whilst
we’re making inquiries, but we
know what’s -what.’’
“You mean,” said Poirot, “that
you have decided that Mrs. Chris
tc-w shot her husband?”
Grange gave him a look of sur
prise.
“Well, don't you think so?”
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Poirot said slowly. “It could all
have happened as she said.”
Inspector Grange shrugged his
shoulders.
“It could have—yes. But it’s a
thin story. And they all think she
killed him! They know something
we don’t.” He looked curiously at
his companion. “You thought
she’d done it all right, didn’t you,
when you arrived on the scene,”
Poirot half closed his eyes.
Coming along the path. . .Gudgeon
stepping aside . . . Gerda Chris
tow standing over her husband
with the revolver in her hand and
that blank look on her face. Yes,
as Grange had said, he had
thought, at least, that that was
the impression he was meant to
have.
Yes, but that was not the same
thing. . . .
A scene staged—set to deceive.
Had Gerda Christow looked like!
a woman who had just shot her
husband? That was what Inspec
tor Grange wanted to know.
And with a sudden shock of
surprise, Hercule Poirot realized
that in all his long experience oi
deeds of violence ha had never
actually come face to face with a
woman who had just killed her
husband. . . . What would a wom
an look like in such circum
stances? Triumph, horrified, satis
fied, dazed, incredulous, empty?
Any one of these things, hr
thought.
Inspector Grange was talking,
Poirot caught the end of his
speech.
“—once you gst all the facts be
hind the case, and you can usual
ly get all that from the servants.”
“Mrs. Christow is going back
to London,”
“Yes. There’s a couple of kids
there. Have to let her go. Oi
course we keep a sharp eye on
her, but she won't know that. She
thinks she’s got away with it all
right. Looks rather a stupid kind
of woman to me.”
Did Gerda Christow realize, Poi
rot wondered, what the police
thought—and what the Angkatells
thought? She had looked as
though she did not realize any
thing at all—she had looked like
a woman whose reactions were
slow and who was completely
dazed and heartbroken by her hus
band's death.
They had come out into the
lane.
Poirot stopped by his gate.
Grange said:
“This your little place? Nice
and snug. Well, goodby for the
present, M. Poirot. Thanks for
your co-operation. I’ll drop in
sometime and give you the low
down on how we re getting on.”
His eye traveled up the lane.
“Who's your neighbor? That’s
not where our new celebrity hangs
out, is it?”
“Miss Veronica Cray, the ac
tress, comes there for week-ends,
I believe.”
“Of course. Dovecotes, I liked
her in “Lady Rides on Tiger,” but
she’s a bit highbrow for my
taste.”
He turned away.
“Well, I must get back to the
job. So long, M. Poirot.”
• * *
“You recognize this, Sir
Henry?”
Inspector Grange laid the re
volver on the desk in front of Sir
Henry and looked ac him expec
tantly.
‘1 can handle it?” Sir Hemy’s
hand hesitated over the revolver
as he asked the question.
Grange nodded.
"It’s been in the pool. Destroyed
whatever fingerprints there were
on.it. A pity, if I «my say so, that
Mis* Savernake let it slip out of
her hand.”
“Yes, ye* — but, of course, it
was a very tense moment for all
or us. Women are apt to get
flustered and—er—drop things.”
Again Inspector Grange nodded
He said:
“Miss Savernake seems a cool,
capable young lady on the whole.”
The words were devoid of em
phasis, yet something in them
made Sir Henry look up sharply.
Grange went on:
“Now, do you recognize it, sir?
Sir Henry picked up the revol
ver and examined it. He noted
the number and compared it with
a list in a small leather-bound book
Then, closing the book with a sigh,
he said:
“Yes, Inspector, this comes
from my collection here.”
“When did you see it last?”
“Yesterday afternoon. We were
doing some shooting in the garden
with a target, and this was one
of the firearms we were using.”
“Who actually fired this revol
ver on that occasion?”
"I think everybody had at least
one shot with it.”
“Irjcluding Mrs. Christow.”
“And after you had finished
shooting?”
“I put the revolver away in Its
usual place. Here.”
He pulled out the drawer of a
tig bureau. It was half full of
guns.
“You’ve got a big collection ol
firearms, Sir Henry.”
“It’s been a hobby of mine for
many years.”
Inspector Grange’s eyes rested
thoughtfully on the ex-governor of
the Hollowene Islands. A good
looking, distinguished man, the
kind of man he would be quite
pleased to serve under himself—in
fact, a man he would much prefer
to his own present chief consta
fcel. Inspector Grange did not
think much of the chief constable
of Wealdshire—a fussy despot and
a tuft-hunter — he brought his
mind back to the job in hand.
‘The revolver was not, of
course, loaded when you put it
away, Sir Henry?’
“Certainly not.”
“And you keep ycur ammunition
—where?”
“Here.” Sir Henry took a key
from a pigeonhole and unlocked
one of the lower drawers of the
desk.
Simple enough, thought Grange.
The Christow w^man had seen
where it was kept. She’d only got
to come along and help herself.
Jealousy, he thought, plays the
dickens with women. He’d lay ten
to one it was jealousy. The thing
would come clear enough when
he’d finished the routine here and
sot onto the Harley Street end.
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