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MURDER comes to the old rectory,

to the old

f

job as took-housekeeper to the Car- ringfords. Almost everybody is suspect. Nurse Cutler, who looked aftor Mrs Carringford, the murdered woman, flendishly attacks widow Merton, aftor drinking toa with her. NOW READ ON.

WHEN the window. The

7HEN I came to, there were voices

питве

still,

had me pinned into the corner her arm aeross my throat, her hand over my mouth. "Sh'h-I want to hear what they Ray!"

She was muttering herself--she had not heard the car; they must have come by the short

cut.

This was the hedged-in path that led through from the muddy

June Dr Grayling used the lane on his routé home, and he must have picked up Philippa there, laden with the shopping she had been doing for me.

His first audible firmed

SiA much. round to the kitchen.”

"No, no," 1 "Not that not kitchen entrance,

but of u

words con→ "I'll take it

1 prayed to myself, to the faraway

leaving

me

womul.

here alone again, with her"

I tried to struggle, to cry out, I was helpless in the grip

much

younger used all her ire to fitting, to carrying, to holding, perhaps to holding down, I could only struggle in her grasp and pray, "Let them come to the window. look in and see me

Let them. here,

And he did look in; but he could have seen nothing in that corner of the

darkened room, for he said, reassuringly. "No, there's no one in. Philippa, here in the sun, tel me talk to you. Tom, please.

you

So sit down.

ark!

not as

“All right, all right,

and

doctor and me; as patient if you like it's for your health's sake, for your nerves.”

I'M GOING

"Don't try to persuade me again; I've decided to go."

"But Philippa, why? Why go out into the world and face it all again? You

safe were here; and you had Trent."

“Ah-Trent,” she said. "My dear old Trent, my friend and comforder. He understands we're two of a pair, Trent and 1, normal people not treated as normal people; disfigured people,

The Dregs of

disfigured outside; I disfigured

inside.

"Philippa, why must you live on ike this in the past? People don't really worry about your

"A

"Don't they?" she said. woman whose husband com- mitted suleide [ur no rezzon that anyone in the world could

and who

suspected, actually suspected by the poller, of murdering him,"

"That was all cleared up at the Inquest.

sec,

Do

was

Death

By Christianna Brand

no-

The Characters

of

"Yes-largely thanks to your you think any- evidence. one believed that Tom? Every- one knew that he was a one Rood sort of person, not much insy to the world: you were our doctor, you knew both u-don't you think that every- all my one said that you and friends had smoothed over the facts?"

SOLID GOLD

"My dear," he insisted, IL was suicide."

"Yes. I who suicide. And yet. Tom-I drove him to it. I shall

that people aren't right-that I was, in a way, his murderer."

never

feel

serv

"And with this on your mind. you want to leave this one little haven of peace and security; and your dear Trent?"

"It'll be

better," sho said wearily. "Joy isn't happy with me

here. who's Jealous, sho doesn't understand, she makes things difficult for all three of

11.

Don't you think the MET- lage will work?"

"Oh, yes," she said. "I think

It's wonderful, just the thing for him. I only say that a three- Bome won't work. It's my fault, being what I am; there's nothing wrong with Joy-she's gold throughout, bless her heart for hly sake!--solid gold.”

"Solid's the word," he said. She gave a little laugh. "You didn't always think so, Lothario.

BOSTON has become the news centre of America, at

least for a few days.

Sir Anthony Eden lies in hospital here.

The father of the atom bomb. Dr Robert Oppenheimer, once banished, has just begun an important series of lectures al nearby Harvard University, desplie banshee wall of

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CENTRAL figure in the drama is widowed Mrs MERTON, gentlewoman cook-housekeeper to the Carringfords, They commercial artist MARCUS CARRINGFORD and hla

who wife,

dies poisoning, TRENT CARRINGFORD, wounded nephew, and MRS PHILIPPA

DEANE, a the nervy niece of

type. Mira

Carringford Wan NURSE looked after by CUTLER DR Interesting

outsider, Wonde JOY BARNSLOW, comes to help in the garden, and Another in MRS HUTCHIN-. SON. the daily help, Sennacherib, the cat, com- pletes the household.

and vislied GRAYLING.

"Carringford stay on."

wants you to

"But how can I accept? He'll be more hard up than ever now that her little income's gone-- It was a pension of some sort. How could he keep me here, useless creature that I am?"

made a big effort, she pulled herself together, standing there braced agairet the panelled door. "I suddenly felt diz. thought you looked ill, too. I Just put my hand to your bead to see if it folt like mine, all clammy and my throat was choking

off of the waves of nausea,

You

blurt out through tho steel Angem that covered my mouth brow and suddenly I recalled She put her hand to her even some meaningless sound that odd gesture she had made that might bring them, inquir- two or three times, the shaking ing, into the darkened room.

And then, quite suddenly, she relaxed her holdi The volces cessed and in the silence her hands fell away from me and I found myself unbeliev ably free.

10

got hysterical. I was only trying to help you. . . ..

Sho began to gasp agains,

: clutching at her throat.

"But you held me down: you put your hand over my mouth.” "I wanted to hear what they

I forced my exhausted limbs sald."

hurried action and half

Did I fancy an echo of that myself Beross the room to the leer with which she had asked french window. But they had me what I had seen going on gone, I heard the sound of the in the potting shed?" "I think battered cl

in the drivo car

I fell forward out. I-passed

When I came and Mr Carringford's voice call on top of you

She was ing out to them, and saw them to-they were there tum the comer and go to meet after him-I thought she

--in love with him. .. her.

She recicd and

retching. I came horribly

YOU DID IT!

MAES

t

gasped, to

Over to- must

my wits.

"Anyway, you're 111, I must "He kept you here before."

And as I fumbled desperately get help. Oh, yes-thank God

De Grayling's here, I'll get "No," said Philippe "Aunt with the latch she was upon Eleanor kept us here both me again, I shook her off and him."

to the alcove I went over me. Poor Aunt stumbled over to the door; but . and Trent Eleanor we couldn't love her, she was there before me, lean- corner and struggled, to move we didn't love her; and yet in ing back against it, panting, the heavy armchair

wards her. You her own odd way. I suppose, with outstretched awns. "Where

What are you down, I'll go and get help...." And she loved us.

now she's are you going?

But she swayed and tottered gone and my poor little last trying to do?"

and suddenly pitched forward, with hope of peace has gone

toppling, slowly and heavily, to her.'

the floor. At that moment figure appeared at the window. all He must have glanced in

scen her, for a hand in a driv- at ing glove trust teclf through

the glass shattering it to splin you ters, and felt for the catch; and voice cried, horror-stricken: "My God Estelle!" Who in Estelic

this house the nurse by ber called Christian name Estelle?

by

An

An

of

those

One more person off the list could have who wished Mrs Carringford dead: two, Indeed, for with her death her husbart lost, it appeared, the use of such as she had had.

small income

I WAS FREE

Not that it mattered to mc

"She's mad," I thought. face

Her and

was terrible, widte dowed with sweat, she sagged against the door as though strength was ebbing out of her; and suddenly screamed out me: "It was you!"

"It was 17 What do Incan?"

throat. "The It-was--is tho

BURST IN

and

"It was you." She sagged against the door, her red head lolling back dreadfully against the white panelling, "You palsoned her!" She began to "My dear you've been listen-

at that moment, not that I gasp, choking out her words, the Everdon gossips. like solid gold as much as ing to

от the thought cared about the clawing at her next man-but not elevon stone morass of wrong judgment and es. tea. misunderstanding into which stood at a time."

helplessly, staring ness behind the armchair; but my careful notes and calcula- back at her, 1 had forgotten he had no eyes for me, he burst tions had led me-held there in all thought of making my his way in and flung himself. the dark alcove corner, faint with the effort to struggle away from those throttling hande,

"I could do with a stone or

1WD of it, DOW that Aunt Eleanor is dead,” sald Philippa, ruofully.

LADY EDEN SAYS:

We Don't Talk Of

Suez Any More

to

100.

*scape. If there was poison on you put it there,"

*I? I just brought you- brought you cup of tea... Just wanted to chat. ..."

I stood there, staring at her staring at the two cups on the desic, the pink cup and the blue. I had changed the cups, I had awitched my innocent

otic for the

she bad brought

not but I had touched her up. there was only one blue cúp.

CUP

me:

I dodged back into the dark-

hig knees beside her. "What's happened, Estelle?"

She rolled over, dreadfully heaving, so that her wet white face stared up into his. THO teach tea? My been using her teal"

"The

Her too.

God-you've

Her special tea-Mrs Car- ringford's special tea, kept jealously apart in the Georgian walnut caddy on her window sill

She had made that cup of tea, herself, she had told me so,

I remebered how Senna- she had brought it down for cherib, the black and white frerself and had sat drinking cat, would lie there with his It; there could have been no chin on the caddy, asleep in mistake, It was true that I the sun. I remembered how she always chose a pink cup, end had said, "Poor Sennacherib-I His brother Robert-there she had brought a pink cup for disturbed him.** were nine Kennedy kids, of me. The atom scientist will never whom geven savive--boks like:

For Joneses, read Russians.

bo completely happy. He Jack, and in the past few weeks says: "You have no iden how he has become almost as repugnant this Is to go

Over famous.

Acting it's on art

my life. It is impossible to be completely candid, and it takes technique, and you have to learn it.

"If you have lived a life that isn't free and open with people, it's almost impossible to un-

DON IDDON'S DIARY

his scorn for

as chief counsel for the Senate Committee inquiring into. union corruption, he shot holes to the. Labour leaders" evidenco and had Dave Back sweating and squirming.

Ho is only 31, and there has not been such a bright young lawyer on the American scene since the clays of Thomas E. Dewey.

Father Kennedy, who began the snarl It, to unravel the ball of with nothing, amassed a million

twine."

dollara, then nina million, and tow perhaps has 90, wys

"I've had my day and I did what I could in my

kind of world. Now it's theirs and their world"

views, politicians. Gathered in the city in one

The banishment of the gentle- of the biggest medical con- ventions ever held aro 7,000 voleed professor seemed to be doctors from all over the world. ended.

No such worries plague the brothers, Boston's Kennedy most famous citizens.

And

Senator John (Jack to prac- Boston and the entire There is an eight-man · com-

everyone) are throb- mittee here-called the Harvard tically

Kennedy, New England area bing with

over Veritas controversy

Committee which young-looking at 40, is the hero of Now England, and the Britain's revolutionary defence wants Oppenheimer's head, plans.

Whitest Hope in the Democratie Party,

The

Colonel Archibald Roosevelt, Is Anthony Eden living on borrowed Ume? ask the doctors. only surviving son of President

Theodore Roosevelt, L case of tho former Prime Minister is on the minds of the leader of the group, and for 1 7,000.

time it looked as if Oppen- helmer would be driven back

into the shadows,

So

wrong

JOE

[OE › KENNEDY was parti- cularly attacked in Britain, He seemed to Son of the multi-millionaire and no wonder the

Joseph Kennedy, one-time think the British couldn't with Ambassador to the Court of St the war.

Kennedy has He was proved wrong. I think James's, Jack everything — brains, looks, beveral

Bostonia.n w.lif ba money, energy, a beautiful wife. proved Wrong about Britain a nation-wide following, and gat. surging ambition.

Meanwhile Lady Eden goes for Jonely walks in the park, past the stained-glass bay- windows, and calls twice daily speaks

Today, however, Oppenheimer calmly, whith his at the hospital She has with.. stood her long ordeal weil.

persuasive skill, and all Harvard listening. The

Suez Canal flowed through our drawing-room for

but now we rarely dla cuss it," he says.

months

It is possible” that

bo_might attend some of the Oppen- heimer lectures,

Oppenheimer

THESE

SE are no ordinary talks by a distinguished scientist, When Oppenlielmer was asked

This is a victory for academic freedom, a blow against the remnants of McCarthy.

Since I've been horo, the He was a sticcers as a Con- headlines have read: “Baltaan zaceeman, is an even greater done fok,

Senator.".... success as a Senator,

"There'll always be an England, perharm."

His book Profiles fa Courage

93319

is a best-seller and he is tipped There have been cartoons

The father of the atom bomb as a likely Presidential candi- showing an aging, sick Lon looks older, thinner, more date in the next election.

ploading to the doctor, Uncle haggard now.

Sam: "You'll have to tolko come Bostonians say "Nothing can of me doc. I'm too weak do In answer to questions ho halt Jack Kennedy

defonki mysel And Unoue sold: "The ultimate purpose of

the guy Kennedy has the touch, par- saying "And you're Ufo 13 life is empty and meagre."

knowledge otherwise, ticularly with the women voters that dyed through Dunkirk,”"

The tousled hair, the easy erin,

Barnet doctors of my hotel What makes a good scientist? the warm handshake, the gift have said: "It looks bad for

of the right words always of the England, doesn't it!”, to give the renowned Henry The professor's answer is: James series of lectures in "There is some element of luck. ht time, are carrying him to

*heat hoogte.

No one hore sotme to realise philosophy, a great honour was Those who do bost are those being bestowed upon him." who never have 1

that we have moved with the I

can be modest. times, that this is the think it Also, ho

atomic Oppenheimer, In effect, was is more important in sciencel to "President, mo? being forgiven for his past determine where we want to go, your bead about that. I'm on that battleshipe and res shortcomings — his connections not just to keep up. with the occupied with trying to make with Comimuniste in the '10's, Joneses, of whom we don't the Democratie Party Bleongwe - But I shouldn't wRON KO V ODS hladungonymotional political think very

und stronger,"

Don't Bother

atausen ace obsolete.

1 De Oppenheimoto-be known,

ALL CLAMMY

If there had been poison in the ten-Nurse Cutler had not known of it.

And yet. after me."

"You-came

Nurse Cutler had disturbed Sennacherib, going to Mrs Carringford's Georgian caddy" to make herself a cup of the special tea.

She had not known that the tea was poisonedì tea, But he had-known,

SATURDAY: The story concludes with a tremendous

I think the thing came in kmpact as the full mystery of waves. Now it passed and who the old rectory is revealed.

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