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Clarabelle spoke quietly, "At least it would have killed him -- Bernadine, if he hadn't been dead already."

Bernadine gasped and covered her mouth.

Clarabelle continued, "That's right. He would have bled more if he had been alive at the time you stabbed him. I guess that let's you off the hook."

Clarabelle stared at Gwendolyn for a long moment before turning to Heloise. "The way I figure it, Henry was already dead because he took the wrong heart pills. Heloise, you knew his afternoon routine by heart like those verses you quote all the time. You knew he'd take his medication on the bus before we got home at dinner time. Henry couldn't see his hand before his face, and that made it easy for you to slip the other pills into the bottle. Maybe you even poured them out for him."

Tears began washing down Heloise's cheeks. She sobbed, "He . . . he wasn't a nice man. I tried to help Henry. I gave him my love, but he didn't want me anymore." She gave Clarabelle a pleading look. "I just couldn't let him go on taking advantage of women. Could I? I thought he'd be better off dead than committing more sin."

Clarabelle patted Heloise's knee, stood up and gruffly ordered the twins. "You two keep her company. Looks like she did you both a favor about that man. I'll have the driver call ahead to have the police meet us."


Patricia Harrington writes short mysteries featuring a variety of sleuths. Clarabelle Gilley, her senior sleuth, will be in the fall issue of Mystery Readers Journal ("They Don't Make 'Em That Way Any More" ). Pat's other mysteries are online at mysterybooks.about.com (search on her name to quickly find them), and her mystery clerihews have appeared in Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine (MIMM) and will be out in Crimestalkers Casebook. Her debut mystery novel, DEATH STALKS THE KHMER, featuring Bridget (Bridg) O'Hern, will be released in early 2001 from AmErica House Publishers.

Copyrights (c) 2000 Patricia Harrington