Edward Palgrove

In the short story A Fruitful Sunday, Edward Palgrove is a city clerk and boyfriend of Dorothy Pratt. On Dorothy's day off, he took Dorothy for a drive in the country in a newly purchased fourth hand old Baby Austin. After stopping to buy a basket of fruit, they went for a picnic. From the newspaper, Dorothy had read about the theft of a ruby necklace worth 50 thousand pounds. Digging into the fruit basket for cherries, Dorothy discovered a necklace fitting the description of the one described in the newspaper. Edward and Dorothy face an ethical dilemma--hand the necklace over to the police or try to raise some much needed money for themselves by selling the jewels to a "fence". How this is resolved may be read here.