Death in the Palazzo
“His emaciated body was trembling slightly.
“A terrible accident! We should remove her head from the door and lay her on the bed. I’m sure if we call up Robert or Sebastian, we can manage it.”
“I don’t think we should touch her,” Urbino said.
Vasco raised one bushy gray eyebrow.
“And why is that?”
“The police will want to have everything kept just as we found it.”
“For decency’s sake! She can’t be left like that!”
“You’re right, of course. Photographs will have to be taken, then. We’ll move her ...after we take them.”
Vasco looked down at the twisted body of the woman who had begun by irritating him yesterday but who, by the end of the evening, had seemed to strike in him a sympathetic chord.
“As you wish.” Vasco made a stiff little bow. “And what about little Gemma?” he asked as if she were still the eight-year-old girl she had been when her mother had died in the same room. “She saw this, didn’t she? I must go to her.”
Urbino followed Vasco out into the hall and closed the door gently behind them.MoreLess
“A terrible accident! We should remove her head from the door and lay her on the bed. I’m sure if we call up Robert or Sebastian, we can manage it.”
“I don’t think we should touch her,” Urbino said.
Vasco raised one bushy gray eyebrow.
“And why is that?”
“The police will want to have everything kept just as we found it.”
“For decency’s sake! She can’t be left like that!”
“You’re right, of course. Photographs will have to be taken, then. We’ll move her ...after we take them.”
Vasco looked down at the twisted body of the woman who had begun by irritating him yesterday but who, by the end of the evening, had seemed to strike in him a sympathetic chord.
“As you wish.” Vasco made a stiff little bow. “And what about little Gemma?” he asked as if she were still the eight-year-old girl she had been when her mother had died in the same room. “She saw this, didn’t she? I must go to her.”
Urbino followed Vasco out into the hall and closed the door gently behind them.MoreLess
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