Chapter Nineteen‘As I said earlier, I rather suspect she wanted to be caught,' Rafferty commented again, several hours later as, with the body of the Prioress removed to the mortuary, he and Llewellyn packed up the gear in their borrowed office at the convent before heading back to the station. Why else leave a clearly pricey watch on the dead man's wrist? Why mention it when she must have suspected I would find out she hadn't seen it? And then, why put him in a grave so shallow that it was inevitable some animal would disturb it? Why duck out of accompanying Sister Rita to the grave herself to confirm the facts when she could have deputed any of the older nuns the task of calming the hysterical novice, Cecile? And why were the missing spare set of keys to the convent not replaced?
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