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lice Henderson was a legend at Wicklow College long before she took a
header three and a half stories from her apartment window to the
sidewalk below.
We were sharing a bottle of wine, sitting on my front stoop across the
breezeway from the stairway door leading to Alice’s apartment. Watching the
forensics people and police go in and out was the most exciting thing
happening at the college on a Friday afternoon.
We weren’t in position to see the body or any of the activity around that.
Her remains were on the other side of the building, and the police had all that
cordoned off.
“There were rumors—which she did nothing to discourage—that she
worked for the CIA back in the fifties and sixties,” Kelly Grace, the college
librarian and archivist, told me. “I had her as a professor—the last time
twelve years ago—before they finally stopped assigning her classes. She was
getting a little absent-minded. At one point, she gave the same lecture three
classes in a row—verbatim, someone recorded them. Sometimes she’d
wander off topic and tell us about her love affairs. One of them sounded an
awful lot like the script for Casablanca.”
“I find it amazing they’ve allowed her to keep that apartment after she
was no longer an employee,” I said.
“Where would she go?” Kelly asked. “She didn’t have any close family,
and she lived in that apartment the past thirty years. She probably felt she was
being generous by not charging the college rent.”
I chuckled. “I do hope I’m not still here in thirty years. There has to be a
life after Wicklow.”
David Hamilton, who lived directly across the breezeway from me and
downstairs from Alice, wandered over and leaned against the wall.
“The police at first thought it might be a suicide,” he said, “until I pointed
out that Alice was eighty-five, used a cane, and probably wasn’t able to climb
up on the table in front of that window. She couldn’t even climb the stairs to
her apartment. The college installed a stair lift for her several years ago.”
“I heard someone say something about a note?” I asked.
David nodded. “Sam Kagan showed me an enigmatic note—not in
Alice’s handwriting—that didn’t sound at all like a suicide note. Actually
sounded a little threatening.”
I perked up my ears. “Ooo. What did it say?”
David and Kelly laughed.
“Are you going to play Miss Marple?” Kelly asked.
“Got any better ideas? Wicklow is definitely lacking in what I consider
normal forms of entertainment.”
“You have no proof,” David said.
“Huh?” Kelly and I said in unison.
“That’s what the note said.”
“How do you know it wasn’t her handwriting?” I asked.
He gave me an indulgent smile. “She leaves me notes. Alice hasn’t driven
in twenty years, so she has me stop by the liquor store for her. She gets her
groceries delivered, but the liquor store won’t do that. Or, at least they didn’t
in the past. I haven’t bothered to check if they do now.”
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