Fenton's Winter (30 page)
Jamieson entered the room
first. He was followed by two uniformed constables. He looked at
Ferguson and then at Fenton's chains as Fenton fought to regain the
power of speech.
"How?" stammered Fenton. "Just
how the hell did you know?"
Jamieson said, "I didn't
really. The truth is we didn't get a computer report for one of the
cars at Helmwood until twenty minutes ago because of a recent
change in ownership. When I found out that the car belonged to one,
Ian Ferguson and bearing in mind what you said about Saxon not
being Munro's killer and how the murderer would have to be someone
in the lab I put two and two together. Ferguson wasn't at his flat
so I put out an APB for the car. It was reported outside the
lab...so here I am."
Ferguson was now fully
conscious. Jamieson bent down to caution him and place him under
formal arrest. Fenton told him all that Ferguson had confessed
to.
"Is that a fact?" said Jamieson
quietly.
"I'm saying nothing," said
Ferguson.
"Of course not sir," said
Jamieson with a sneer.
Ferguson put his hand up to his
head to feel the place where the transporter had hit him and, in
doing so, lifted the hair away from his ear. It had a piece missing
from it. Fenton froze when he saw it and knew that Jamieson had
seen it too.
Jamieson turned to the two
constables and said, "Wait downstairs." The men looked puzzled but
trooped out obediently and closed the door behind them. Suddenly
and without any warning Jamieson spun on his heel and swung his
right foot into Ferguson's face. Fenton winced but Jamieson
remained expressionless. "That," he said looking down at the
gasping Ferguson, "was a wee something for Madeline Gray."
When he could speak again
through a mess of blood and teeth Ferguson spluttered, "You won't
get away with this you bastard!" He turned to Fenton and said, "You
saw that Fenton! You saw what he did to me!"
"Saw what?" said Fenton.
The winter was finally
over.
THE END
McClure
The Steven Dunbar
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KEN McCLURE is an award-winning
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