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THE CASE OF THE CARETAKER
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Seventeen
THE CASE OF THE CARETAKER
“ W ell,” demanded Doctor Haydock of his patient. “And how goes it today?”
Miss Marple smiled at him wanly1 from pillows.
“I suppose, really, that I’m better,” she admitted, “but I feel so terribly depressed2. I can’t help feeling how muchbetter it would have been if I had died. After all, I’m an old woman. Nobody wants me or cares about me.”
Doctor Haydock interrupted with his usual brusqueness. “Yes, yes, typical after-reaction of this type of flu. Whatyou need is something to take you out of yourself. A mental tonic3.”
Miss Marple sighed and shook her head.
“And what’s more,” continued Doctor Haydock, “I’ve brought my medicine with me!”
He tossed a long envelope on to the bed.
“Just the thing for you. The kind of puzzle that is right up your street.”
“A puzzle?” Miss Marple looked interested.
“Literary effort of mine,” said the doctor, blushing a little. “Tried to make a regular story of it. ‘He said,’ ‘shesaid,’ ‘the girl thought,’ etc. Facts of the story are true.”
“But why a puzzle?” asked Miss Marple.
Doctor Haydock grinned. “Because the interpretation4 is up to you. I want to see if you’re as clever as you alwaysmake out.”
With that Parthian shot he departed.
Miss Marple picked up the manuscript and began to read.
“And where is the bride?” asked Miss Harmon genially5.
The village was all agog6 to see the rich and beautiful young wife that Harry7 Laxton had brought back fromabroad. There was a general indulgent feeling that Harry—wicked young scapegrace—had had all the luck.
Everyone had always felt indulgent towards Harry. Even the owners of windows that had suffered from hisindiscriminate use of a catapult had found their indignation dissipated by young Harry’s
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