Charity Ends At Home f-5 Page 18

  Ten yards away, close to the right-hand wall of the swimming pool, was what looked like a floating bundle of clothes.

  Nearby stood Booker, in shorts and white sweater, leaning forward from his feet and indifferently contemplating Purbright’s arrival.

  The inspector ran round the pool’s edge and lay full length to face the water. He grabbed the sodden bundle and heaved part of it up and forward. Boys were kneeling, each side of him, reaching out. Together they pulled and rolled the inert Mr Hive from the pool.

  Purbright spoke to the nearest boy. “Do you think you could make a nine-nine-nine call?”

  The boy nodded emphatically and got to his feet.

  “Ambulance and police. Quick as you can.”

  The boy sped off.

  One of his companions pulled the inspector’s sleeve.

  “Sir, Mr Booker knows how to give the kiss of life, sir.”

  Mr Hive stirred and gave a weak, strangled cough.

  “Hush,” Purbright said to the boy. “I think he heard that.”

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