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notice. Jonty grinned, wriggling his little nose along his lover s chest.
 It s not just the sharing the last favours I ve missed, it s this. The intimacy, the sharing of thoughts
and time together. It would have been easier almost for us to be at opposite ends of the country. Then I
wouldn t see you and wish&  Orlando swallowed hard.
 Come on, we have a murder to solve and while it may not be a romantic thing to contemplate, at
least it ll stop us getting too maudlin. We must be getting closer. Who s in the frame?
Orlando surreptitiously wiped his eye as he reached for his notebook.  The grieving widow first and
foremost. Let s say that Sir Laurence found out she d been having another dalliance. I wouldn t put it past
her, she has the potential to be quite brazen. Orlando remembered how he d been accosted out by the sea
wall it hadn t accorded with the image of the quiet little thing they d built up.  Does that really work?
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 It s the quiet ones you have to watch, Orlando. I know that from experience with you. Ow. Jonty
manoeuvred his bottom out of slapping range.  It s possible, given the amount of time she was in the
grounds ostensibly looking for her husband, but it doesn t feel right. Those jewels come into it, I m sure.
 Lynette Johnson, then, has she motive enough?
 If Sir Laurence started trying his old nonsense, perhaps. Although it does seem extreme to resort to
murder when a kick in the unmentionables would do the trick. How she got him out into the garden would
be a mystery, although a promise of an assignation might have worked.
 Ah, but what if she d been substituting the old girl s jewels and  himself had found out? He might
have been the one to organise a showdown.
 That s a neat word showdown. Not heard you use it before. Learned it on the dance floor, did we?
Orlando rolled over and slapped his lover s bottom, again, extremely hard.
 Thank you so much, greatly appreciated. Trouble is there seems to be no evidence of money finding
its way into Miss Jordan s account, does there?
Orlando had hoped his friend would say some such thing; it gave him an opportunity to deliver a
lecture.  And you say I m naïve. Jonty, you take the biscuit sometimes. If I were to begin selling off all
your valuables I wouldn t be so daft as to put the money in my bank account or even hide it under the bed.
I d have someone I trust take care of it, as Miss Jordan might have Miss Robinson do. Have the police
checked her financial dealings?
Jonty whistled.  I don t think they have, you know. That s a very good point we ve probably been
looking in too tight a circle for the proceeds from those jewels. We need to widen the net.
Orlando felt full of himself. He had more smug little points to make and was going to enjoy them all.
 Now, there s been someone in this investigation I ve had my eye on from the start, that golf professional.
It pains me to say it but your father made a bit of a hash of things there.
 Poor old bird, he looked so dreadfully ashamed of himself. Although it s happened to both of us, that
sinking feeling of coming away from an interview and realising you ve left the key question unspoken. At
least Dougherty won t be able to play the slippery eel with Mr. Wilson. The chief inspector will play him
like a fish on a line and we ll all be the wiser come tonight. Jonty leaned up on one elbow, his muscular
chest emerging from the covers and momentarily distracting his better half.  Now why did the master of
the mashie niblick attract your attention?
 Partly because he was so pally with her ladyship. It made me wonder all sorts of things, like whether
he was involved in a relationship with her don t snigger, she d been one man s mistress and she must
have enjoyed that sort of thing.
 Like you then, in that respect. Ooh. Don t pinch. Especially don t pinch there. Jonty rubbed his sore
bottom.  If that bleeds I ll never get a plaster to stick.
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 Shut up then. When the matter of the dodgy jewellery came up I contemplated whether he might
have been involved there can t be a lot of money in golfing, really. I could never make any sense of his
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