The Fountain Plays - Chapter Of Crime Never Pays
At the end of the dinner, some of them decide to play bridge but Mrs. Digby, one of his neighbours, decides to leave, and Mr. Spiller offers himself toaccompanies her.
Once he is back home, realizes that everybody has gone to bed but Masters, the servant. He has turned off the fountain and everything is ready to go to sleep, so Mr. Spiller tellshim to leave. But not everybody was in bed… Mr. Gooch, who had declined to play bridge with the other guests after the dinner, had decided to go to the garden. Some minutes later, they both meet in theliving room and start to talk. Mr. Gooch knows a terrible secret about Mr. Spiller, and blackmails him in order to get more money than in fact he is receiving to keep the secret. He threatens to tellher daughter about it, they argue, and the crime takes place. Mr. Spiller was not intended to kill him but, actually, he did.
He hides the body next to the fountain and turns it on so that the waterkeeps the body temperature and confuses the police the next morning pretending to feign a natural death.
In the morning the body is found and the Police thinks it is a natural death as Mr. Spillerplanned, but when everything seemed to be finished, Masters the servant tells Mr. Spiller that he knows everything about the crime he committed, and in order to keep the secret of the recent murder,Mr. Spiller has to increase his salary and to give him money when he ask to.
Mr. Gooch blackmailed him before, and Masters is doing it now. The same story is repeated again, like the fountain, which...
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