14Garth came slowly back. When he reached the village he took the shorter way and came to the bottom of the Rectory garden by way of the Church Cut. Someone had cleared away the broken glass. As he was wondering who it might have been, Cyril Bond emerged crab-like from Meadowcroft.
"I made a good job of it, I reckon. I'm a Scout, so I thought, 'Suppose someone was to cut hisself', and I picked it all up and put it in the ditch. I reckon that was a good deed all right."
Garth laughed. There was something artless about the creature.
"I reckon it was."
Cyril edged nearer.
"Was you at the inquest?"
Garth nodded.
"What did they say?" His a's were all i's, his London twang pure Stepney.
"They said it was suicide."
"Why?"
"Because he was found in the church with the door locked and his
