[MaC] Examining the body

[Mel Mason]

Missed this one yesterday ...


>> 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.
>
"No," Lucinda reported, after careful examination.  "No marks at all."


>> "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.
>

There were no signs of lesions.  It appeared Nola had not progressed to this 
stage of abuse yet.