13: You Never Know With Women
LEONORE WILBERY stood in the flower garden at Deeplands. The April sun was shining brightly, the wind had dropped. It was a nice day. She breathed in the clean air deeply.
Callaghan came across the lawn. He came through the gateway in the low wall between the lawn and the flower garden. He said:
"That was Chief Detective-Inspector Gringall of the Special Branch on the telephone. They've found the gun and they've matched the bullets. The bullet that killed Lionel was fired from that gun. The case against Milta is cut and dried. He'll hang. I don't know what they'll do with Sabine."
She looked at him. She said:
"So Lionel wasn't so bad, after all. Have you told mother about it— all of it?"
Callaghan nodded.
"Yes,'' he said. "She was glad to know at last h
