Excerpt from The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations These details, indeed, were never officially made public, since a discreet police force found no clues; for Fred Musgrave (of King's Garden), as befitted the dead man's well-to - do brother, had been at no little pains to insure constabulary shortsightedness, in preference to having the nature of Scott Musgrave's recreations unsympathetically aired. Fred Mus grave thereby afforded Lichfield a delectable oppor tunity (conversationally and abetted by innumerable they do say's) to accredit the murder, turn by turn, to every able-bodied person residing within stone's throw of its commission. So that few had time, now, to talk of Rudolph Musgrave and Clarice Pendomer; for it was not in Lichfieldian human nature to dis cuss a mere domestic imbroglio when here, also in the Musgrave family, was a picturesque and gory as sassination to lay tongue to.

So Colonel Musgrave was duly reelected that spring to the librarianship of the Lichfield Historical Association, and the name of Mrs. George Pendomer was not stricken from the list of patronesses of the Lichfield German Club, but was merely altered to Mrs. Clarice Pendomer.

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