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13.BLACK AND RED CHECK
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Thirteen
BLACK AND RED CHECK
IM rs. Sandbourne returned just as the party was sitting down to lunch. Her news was not good. Miss Temple was stillunconscious. She certainly could not be moved for several days.
Having given the bulletin, Mrs. Sandbourne turned the conversation to practical matters. She produced suitabletimetables of trains for those who wished to return to London and proposed suitable plans for the resumption of thetour on the morrow or the next day. She had a list of suitable short expeditions in the near neighbourhood for thisafternoon—small groups in hired cars.
Professor Wanstead drew Miss Marple aside as they went out of the dining room—“You may want to rest this afternoon. If not, I will call for you here in an hour’s time. There is an interestingchurch you might care to see—?”
“That would be very nice,” said Miss Marple.
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Miss Marple sat quite still in the car that had come to fetch her. Professor Wanstead had called for her at the time hehad said.
“I thought you might enjoy seeing this particular church. And a very pretty village, too,” he explained. “There’s noreason really why one should not enjoy the local sights when one can.”
“It’s very kind of you, I’m sure,” Miss Marple had said.
She had looked at him with that slightly fluttery gaze of hers.
“Very kind,” she said. “It just seems—well, I don’t want to say it seems heartless, but well, you know what Imean.”
“My dear lady, Miss Temple is not an old friend of yours or anything like that. Sad as this accident has been.”
“Well,” said Miss Marple again, “this is very kind of you.”
Professor Wanstead had opened the door of the car and Miss Marple got into it. It was, she presumed, a hired car.
A kindly1 thought to take an elderly lady to see one of the sights of the neighbourhood. He might have taken somebodyyounger, more interesting and certainly better looking. Miss Marple looked at him thoughtfully once or twice as theydrove through the village. He was not looking at her. He was gazing out of his own window.
When they had left the village behind and were on a second class country road twisting round the hillside, heturned his head and said to her,
“We are not going to a church, I am afraid.”
“No,” said Miss Marple, “I thought perhaps we weren’t.”
“Yes, the idea would have come to you.”
“Where are we going, may I ask?”
“We are going to a hospital, in Carristown.”
“Ah yes, that was where Miss Temple was taken?”
It was a question, though it hardly needed to be one.
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