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23. Evening at the Vicarage
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Twenty-three
E VENING AT THE V ICARAGE
M iss Marple sat in the tall armchair. Bunch was on the floor in front of the fire with her arms round her knees.
The Reverend Julian Harmon was leaning forward and was for once looking more like a schoolboy than a manforeshadowing his own maturity2. And Inspector3 Craddock was smoking his pipe and drinking a whisky and soda4 andwas clearly very much off duty. An outer circle was composed of Julia, Patrick, Edmund and Phillipa.
“I think it’s your story, Miss Marple,” said Craddock.
“Oh no, my dear boy. I only just helped a little, here and there. You were in charge of the whole thing, andconducted it all, and you know so much that I don’t.”
“Well, tell it together,” said Bunch impatiently. “Bit each. Only let Aunt Jane start because I like the muddly5 wayher mind works. When did you first think that the whole thing was a put-up job by Blacklock?”
“Well, my dear Bunch, it’s hard to say. Of course, right at the very beginning, it did seem as though the idealperson—or rather the obvious person, I should say—to have arranged the hold-up was Miss Blacklock herself. Shewas the only person who was known to have been in contact with Rudi Scherz, and how much easier to arrangesomething like that when it’s your own house. The central heating, for instance. No fires—because that would havemeant light in the room. But the only person who could have arranged not to have a fire was the mistress of the househerself.
“Not that I thought of all that at the time—it just seemed to me that it was a pity it couldn’t be as simple as that!
Oh, no, I was taken in like everyone else, I thought that someone really did want to kill Letitia Blacklock.”
“I think I’d like to get clear first on what really happened,” said Bunch. “Did this Swiss boy recognize her?”
“Yes. He’d worked in—”
She hesitated and looked at Craddock.
“In Dr. Adolf Koch’s clinic in Berne,” said Craddock. “Koch was a world-famous specialist on operations forgoitre. Charlotte Blacklock went there to have her goitre removed and Rudi Scherz was one of the orderlies. When hecame to England he recognized in the hotel a lady who had been a patient and on the spur of the moment he
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