A Dash of Murder
“Today, the prim and proper Miss Boyle was out of her pencil skirt and had put on jeans and a gray T-shirt. She didn’t seem to be too happy with her police escort.
“Seems like it,” my father answered. “I found her trying to come down the stairs from the other side of the hospital.”
“Is it against the law to come down the stairs now?” she asked.
Maggie was incensed. “It’s one thing to insult me in front of the town, calling me a devil worshiper, but it is quite another when you throw ...a water heater at my niece.” She rose from my side, and I was pretty sure she was about to swing a boilermaker at my attacker. I grabbed her hand to pull her back, although secretly I would have liked to see her do it.
“You people do not need to be here – and you have no proof I was the one who threw that rusty piece of metal down the stairs.”
“Then let me ask you what you were doing upstairs in that heat?”MoreLess
“Seems like it,” my father answered. “I found her trying to come down the stairs from the other side of the hospital.”
“Is it against the law to come down the stairs now?” she asked.
Maggie was incensed. “It’s one thing to insult me in front of the town, calling me a devil worshiper, but it is quite another when you throw ...a water heater at my niece.” She rose from my side, and I was pretty sure she was about to swing a boilermaker at my attacker. I grabbed her hand to pull her back, although secretly I would have liked to see her do it.
“You people do not need to be here – and you have no proof I was the one who threw that rusty piece of metal down the stairs.”
“Then let me ask you what you were doing upstairs in that heat?”MoreLess
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