TAILIEUCHUNG - A Caribbean Mystery

CHAPTER 1 - MAJOR PALGRAVE TELLS A STORY Take all this business about Kenya,” said Major Palgrave. “Lots of chaps gabbing away who know nothing about the place! Now I spent fourteen years of my life there. Some of the best years of my life, too.” Old Miss Marple inclined her head. It was a gentle gesture of courtesy. Whilst Major Palgrave proceeded with the somewhat uninteresting recollections of a lifetime, Miss Marple peacefully pursued her own thoughts. It was a routine with which she was well acquainted | A Caribbean Mystery Agatha Christie A Caribbean Mystery Author Agatha Christie Category Thriller Other name Diana C. Website http Date 11-October-2012 Page 1 143 http A Caribbean Mystery Agatha Christie CHAPTER 1 - MAJOR PALGRAVE TELLS A STORY Take all this business about Kenya said Major Palgrave. Lots of chaps gabbing away who know nothing about the place Now I spent fourteen years of my life there. Some of the best years of my life too. Old Miss Marple inclined her head. It was a gentle gesture of courtesy. Whilst Major Palgrave proceeded with the somewhat uninteresting recollections of a lifetime Miss Marple peacefully pursued her own thoughts. It was a routine with which she was well acquainted. The locale varied. In the past it had been predominantly India. Majors Colonels Lieutenant-Generals-and a familiar series of words Simla Bearers Tigers Chota Hazri-Tiffin Khitmagars and so on. With Major Palgrave the terms were slightly different. Safari. Kikuyu. Elephants. Swahili. But the pattern was essentially the same. An elderly man who needed a listener so that he could in memory relive days in which he had been happy. Days when his back had been straight his eyesight keen his hearing acute. Some of these talkers had been handsome soldierly old boys some again had been regrettably unattractive and Major Palgrave purple of face with a glass eye and the general appearance of a stuffed frog belonged in the latter category. Miss Marple had bestowed on all of them the same gentle charity. She had sat attentively inclining her head from time to time in gentle agreement thinking her own thoughts and enjoying what there was to enjoy in this case the deep blue of a Caribbean Sea. So kind of dear Raymond-she was thinking gratefully-so really and truly kind. Why he should take so much trouble about his old aunt she really did not know. Conscience perhaps family feelings Or possibly he was truly fond of her. She thought on the whole that he was .

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