[MaC] Examining the body

Dorothea Salo dorothea at textartisan.com
Tue Dec 28 09:23:15 EST 2004


> Lucinda reported the findings.

	"The fork isn't scratched at all, is it?" Pamela asked, looking up from 
her work. "I was only thinking... the murderer, to keep from tearing up 
his hands on whatever he used... could have wrapped the ends 'round a 
tuning fork and turned it... a sort of makeshift garrote, I suppose. But 
it would take awful presence of mind to do such a thing. I daresay I'm 
quite wrong." From her tone, she certainly hoped so.

> "Are there any needle marks on her arms?" she asked.
> 
> There were, both Pamela and Tabitha could see - but none showed signs of 
> being infected.
> 
> "Perhaps we should look in her handbag," suggested Lucinda.

	"Perhaps you'd do that? If you don't mind," said Pamela. "We'd make 
something of a mess. Now, I wonder... marking her arms, it can't have 
been good for her career... I heard some wretched stories from one young 
man..." Carefully, Pamela pulled at the lashes of Nola's left eye, upper 
and lower, to examine the skin beneath for lesions.



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