Sure And Certain Death
“Not that I often do have what most would call proper shut-eye. But even my poor brain doesn’t usually boil over all the time like it did that night. Dolly O’Dowd was one of Nancy’s best friends! Two old spinsters together, they went to Mass every Sunday and took part in every sort of church social and good-works thing that was going. My Hannah had said that Nellie Martin had been churchy too. Nan and Dolly O’Dowd went, I knew, to St Margaret’s in Canning Town, which was on the Barking Road like..., it was said, Nellie Martin’s church. Had Nellie attended that church too, and if so, was that what was connecting these women?
Of course I couldn’t find out anything in the middle of the night. The Duchess and my sisters had seemingly slept through the coppers delivering Dolly O’Dowd’s body through the back of the shop. The coffin lid was nailed right down and there was nothing to indicate who might be inside. But that didn’t mean I was off the hook about telling the family.MoreLess
Of course I couldn’t find out anything in the middle of the night. The Duchess and my sisters had seemingly slept through the coppers delivering Dolly O’Dowd’s body through the back of the shop. The coffin lid was nailed right down and there was nothing to indicate who might be inside. But that didn’t mean I was off the hook about telling the family.MoreLess
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