Evan put the cattle prod in the trunk of his Fiat. He’d told Bernadette the truth that he didn’t know what to do with it. From a legal standpoint, at a minimum, he was sure the Reverend Mother had withheld evidence from a criminal investigation. Failing to call for an ambulance upon finding the corpse was surely a serious mistake, if not a crime. But she’d had every reason to believe Michael Coyle was already dead. Although an autopsy was done, the examiner had not been able to determine whether the wound on the priest’s forehead had been delivered before or after he died.
And now that the murder charge against Shackleton had been dismissed, what was the status of the case? Like it or not, Evan was involved in it again.
What am I obliged to do? What do I feel I ought to do?
What am I ob
