Colin Sedgwick cracked his whip above the head of his horse to hurry it along. He had only just delivered poor Jasper’s body to the church hall for the ladies to prepare him for burial when Cedric arrived on horseback summoning him to Ralph’s cottage.
Although he should have been glad of the work, since the incident in the graveyard with Mary Grant’s corpse, he had grown wary of transporting dead bodies and wished he could afford to turn the work down.
At least with Jasper he knew that the old man had passed away due to natural causes, but from what Cedric had told him en route, there was nothing natural about the way Ralph and his wife had expired.
Worse still was the story the groundkeeper had relayed about Ralph’s son Toby, and how he was most likely the murderer of his own parents.
