[MaC] Examining the body

[Jade]

> > 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.
> 

Tabitha was running her fingers over Nola's stomach,
pressing on the dark splotches here and there. "Oh..."
she said quietly, scrutinising the skin closely. She
bit her lip.


		
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