CHAPTER 24Miss Silver was on her way to Hazeldon. She had to see the prisoner, and she wished also to see the place where the tragedy had happened, and to make such local enquiries as seemed good to her. As far as the first of these objects went, she had, paradoxically, deferred it to the end, since she wished to examine the scene of the crime and acquaint herself with all local details first, and Jimmy had been removed to the prison of the county town. She left the train and was looking about her for a cab, when a familiar voice hailed her.
“Miss Silver! And what might you be doing here?”
She turned with a smile to greet a very old friend, Detective Inspector Frank Abbott.
“I imagine that I am on the same business as you are,” she said.
Frank Abbott contemplated her with something app
