It was in my rooms that night that we settled on the evidence which was to be offered next day at the inquest. They had to come to me because I was on a couch with a twisted ankle and two broken ribs. P.C. Dorey had found me lying on the cliff’s edge, and after rendering first aid had gone off for help to transport me home.
“Well,” Le Marinel was saying, “all
along I said the Chief would get them by the finger-prints.” He looked over at me. “Didn’t I say that
on Saturday before you went into the wine shop? Of course the fellow didn’t suppose that the
little island of Guernsey could
boast a finger-print expert like Carey.” Carey looked at McNab apologetically.
“Forgive this outburst of local patriotism,” he said. “We all know that without your constructive imagination my technical knowledge would not have carried us far.”
Now this kind of talk was all very well between Le Marinel, Carey and McNab. They had been together all day, and were in full possession of the facts. But I had been out of things since Dorey took me home that morning, and knew nothing of the day’s developments. So I cut into the talk.
“If there’s a vote to be taken on the question of pre-eminence,” I said, “may I remind you that I am not in possession of all the facts?”
From: John Ferguson, Death Comes To Perigord. London & Glasgow, William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1931.
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Center Image: Airplane trails over Guernsey night.
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