Vanishing Point
“He had come to tell her the result of the post-mortem on Miss Holiday. They sat in the dining-room, and she gave him her usual strict attention whilst her busy needles clicked and little Josephine’s legging lengthened.
“Well,” he began, “she was alive when she got that bump on the head, and she was alive when she went into the water, but no one is going to swear that she didn’t hit her head on the side of the well as she went down. It could have been that way, you know, though I’ll give you... this—the police surgeon doesn’t think it was. He is inclined to believe that there may have been an earlier bruise.”
“Were there any signs of a struggle?”
He paused for a moment before answering this.
“Not as far as any damage to her clothes went. But you will remember that Mrs. Selby said she was wearing a string of blue beads—”
“Yes, Frank.”
“Well, when we got her up out of the well it looked as if the string was missing, but afterwards at the mortuary it was discovered that two or three of the beads had run down inside her clothes and been caught there, which looks as if the string had broken when she was attacked.”MoreLess
“Well,” he began, “she was alive when she got that bump on the head, and she was alive when she went into the water, but no one is going to swear that she didn’t hit her head on the side of the well as she went down. It could have been that way, you know, though I’ll give you... this—the police surgeon doesn’t think it was. He is inclined to believe that there may have been an earlier bruise.”
“Were there any signs of a struggle?”
He paused for a moment before answering this.
“Not as far as any damage to her clothes went. But you will remember that Mrs. Selby said she was wearing a string of blue beads—”
“Yes, Frank.”
“Well, when we got her up out of the well it looked as if the string was missing, but afterwards at the mortuary it was discovered that two or three of the beads had run down inside her clothes and been caught there, which looks as if the string had broken when she was attacked.”MoreLess
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