Chapter Fifteen
We stared at him in astonishment. How on earth could he have known what we had been talking about?
MacMurray glared round at us.
‘It’s not true, I tell you!’ he said. ‘Why, the very idea is absurd!’
The inspector was the first to recover himself.
‘I’m afraid I don’t quite follow you,’ he said politely.
‘Oho, don’t tell me you don’t know what I’m talking about. I’ve just been speaking to Angela, who warned me that I was probably about to be arrested and that I should find myself a lawyer pronto.’
So that was how he had known. I had seen the realization dawn in Angela Marchmont’s face when Hugh MacMurray had made the admission that he had missed the game of Consequences. She and Jameson must both have made the deduction about the study door at the same moment.
‘Very w
