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Updated: May 16, 2025
"I presume your basement room has a window looking out upon the back garden?" Dundee persisted. "Yes, it has, but I didn't waste no time looking out of it," Lydia answered grimly. "I was laying down, with an ice cap against my jaw." She had seen someone, Dundee told himself. But the truth would be harder to extract from that stern, scar-twisted mouth, than the abscessed tooth had been.
You've had a hard day with the abscessed tooth, the dope the dentist gave you, and other things. I don't wonder that you lost your head, went a little crazy, perhaps " The detective's sinister implication seemed to make no impression at all upon the woman with the scarred face. "I asked you " she gasped, her single eye glaring at him, "who dared say Nita burned me?"
Sicker'n a pup she was; it was a mess. Said she'd " "I'd better have her up and question her, if she's well enough," Dundee interrupted, as tactfully as possible. "It seems that she had an abscessed tooth out today, with gas and a local anesthetic.... Now, Miss Raymond, will you tell me exactly what you meant by saying it must have been Lydia who killed her mistress?"
"No," she answered in her harsh, flat voice. "I'd fixed the sandwiches and put out the liquors for the cocktails set them all out on the dining table and sideboard, and Miss Nita had told me to go and lie down as soon as I was through. So I did. I had an abscessed tooth pulled this morning, and I was feeling sick." "Did you hear the kitchen bell at all?" Dundee went on.
"Nita didn't seem surprised; said she had a key, if Lydia hadn't come back yet.... You see," she interrupted herself to explain to Dundee, "Nita had already told us at luncheon that 'poor, darling Lydia, as she called her, had had to go in to town to get an abscessed tooth extracted, and was to wait in the dentist's office until she felt equal to driving herself home again in Nita's coupe.... Yes, Nita had taken her in herself," she answered the beginning of a question from Dundee.
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