Girl in the News Page #4

canter down?

- In between the pines?

- Yes?

- Yes, well you'll never gallop down

there again!

Ha, I mean, I mean they... they've sold

the land

Yes, they've, eh, shifted the tee over

other trees. - Oh, I see.

Well, goodbye then, goodbye, you'll soon

be better. Goodbye!

Goodbye. I'll see you out!

I'm glad those tablets are doing you

good!

- No, no, don't bother I can find my own

way down, thank you! - Sure?

Why doesn't he say what he thinks? Does

he imagine I don't know there's nothing

he can do for me?

I know what he's saying to himself!

'Poor chap, what a tragedy! Must try and

cheer him up!'

- That's what it is!

- Please, Edward!

Oh, I know I'm fixed in this chair for

the rest of my life!

A magnificent vista of years and years!

I could stand it better if only you

complained, Judith!

You're wasting yourself on a man who's

half-dead!

Why don't you live your own life, mine's

finished!

It's rather a nice day, why don'y you go

out for a walk?

Can't be much fun having a husband who's

nothing but a grim bit of furniture!

Oh,what a mess it all is! I wish I could

see the end of it!

- You understand, don't you?

- Yes, I think so.

- You're very young, your life hasn't

been any too easy, has it? - No.

Mr Bentley, I've been meaning to

tell you...

There's something you should know,

something I should have told you before.

Excuse me sir. The car's waiting, you've

only just time to catch the train, Nurse

Oh yes, you mustn't miss that!

- May I tell you later?

- Yes of course. We're friends,aren't we?

You wanting anything, sir?

No thanks, just bring me my tray at the

usual time.

- Oh, don't forget your medicine!

- No, no, I won't.

5 O'clock,Mr Bentley might like his tray

when you're finished with your horoscope

Ok, have some patience!

- I was out when it happened.

- You couldn't have helped him.

Mrs Bentley, I... I don't want to..

stress you at a time like this

but I'm not satisfied.

I can't give a certificate.

What do you mean?

His heart was as sound as yours or mine.

There's no organic reason for this.

This key. I found it lying by his hand.

Do you know it?

Yes, it belongs to my writing desk.

- Oh, what do you keep in there?

- Oh, oddments and writing things

and those tablets you gave me

- Tell me, can you remember how many

you took? - Three, I think.

Yes, I'm certain because I didn't need

them after the first three nights

Three, and there's seven.

There were twenty-five, you know.

- Did your husband know you kept them in

there? - I don't know but...

Well, the symptoms are consistent with

Somenol poisoning.

Only an autopsy can decide. I'm afraid I

shall have to... inform the police.

This is exactly as I found him. Key was

lying here.

I see. Suicide, I'm afraid.

Well sir, we know that he was left alone

at 4 o'clock, the tablets were in

his wife's room.

Now then, suppose we reconstruct.

- Oh, half a second, let me do that

- Alright. I'll get out

- Wait a mo, caught my coat. Alright?

- There we are.

- Wait a minute, I'll hold it for you

at the back - Okay.

- There you are.

- Right.

Now, I'm left alone... what next?

Depression, sudden impulse to suicide.

- Remembers tablets in wife's room

- Mmm, wheels himself to door

- Ah. Uh Constable? Wheel me down the

passage, will you?

- Was he often in the dumps?

- He had moments of depression.

Down the corridor, and into his wife's

room, that's right.

Won't go through

- He couldn't have walked, I suppose?

- No, impossible.

You don't think?

Constable, get me off here, will you?

- Your sandwiches

- Ah, thank you

- Well, it couldn't have been suicide.

- No.

And you can't take fifteen tablets

without knowing it.

I say, it's nasty, isn't it?

Aye, can't understand it.

If it was given to him without his

knowledge,it must have been in something

Yes, well, it wasn't in his supper.

Anything?

I think so.

- Well who gives him his medicine?

- The nurse, Nurse Lovell, but..

there wasn't any motive!

- That's the noise they make when

they're laying! - What're they laying?

- He's late!

- Yes, he said he might be.

Mr Farringdon? Mr Mather asks can you

spare a minute in the bar?

Yes, alright.

If you don't mind, I won't be a minute.

Hello Bill! Aren't you coming in

Don't you know I'm a policeman, a public

scavenger, old man?

- A glorified lavatory man? Give me

another sausage, miss!- What's the matter?

Urgent job. Police car's picking me up

here in a mo.

In order to make thoroughly certain of

ruining my evening, the victim selfishly

got himself bumped off

thirty miles away!

- Murder?

- Mmm. Have an onion.

Oh, of course. They're not in your line

at the moment.

Dorford police called us in. Just

near there.

Quiet little place called Camthorpe!

Who was the victim? Anyone important?

Um, fellow called Rogers? No, Bentley.

That's right, Bentley. Poison.

Poison?

Do they know who did it?

Hear that? We shall have to clean this

place up!

All I know is, somebody fed him with

enough tablets to put an elephant to sleep!

- Oh, there you are, Mather. Ready?

- Yes, sir.

Sorry I couldn't meet the girlfriend,

Steve.

- I was only fooling. My sister.

- Thought she'd evacuated?

- Yes, but she came up to town for a

day's shopping. -Well give her my love.

Oh, by the way, shan't be back tonight,

we're putting up at the local

- So long, Steve

- So long!

You don't need to look over there, the

cow comes out here!

- Where's your friend?

- He couldn't stop.

Had to go out on a job.

I think I told you, he's a police

officer.

- Any more trains down from London

tonight? - Only the 11:30.

Gets here at 12:
10.

- I'll get my bus stop.

- Taxi!

Waterloo station.

By the way. You haven't told me, how's

the job going?

Oh, very well!

- And Mr Bentley?

- Why, he's grand. You'd like him.

Do they know you're coming down on

this train?

Mm-hm. They're sending the car to meet

me at Dorford.

That looks like an empty one!

Yes, well. Thank you for everything, I

haven't enjoyed myself so much for a

long time.

Oh, my goodness!

That's the platform one!

Look, I'm not keeping you or anything,

am I? I mean, if you want to get away.

No, no, you'll be off in a moment.

Dorford only!

You do know it's first stop Dorford,

don't you?

Of course, why?

- I wonder whether you were wise.

- Wise?

- To take another job as a nurse.

- What do you mean?

Well, suppose the same thing happened all

over again. Where would you be then?

Have you ever thought of that?

Aren't you being rather morbid?

- Stranger things have happened.

- Look, I thought all this was forgotten

It was a mistake for me to come up here.

Anne!

You can't go back! Listen to me!

Bentley's dead!

Poison. Police are down there now.

Hey, what's the idea of dragging people

off a moving train?

- Well, can't you see she's fainted?

- I'm not surprised!

- Let me tell you there's a...

- Look, I saw she was taken ill before

the train moved out,I couldn't leave

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