“Did Hiram kill Prudence? Were you there?”
Constance shook her head. “No, I was here, lying low until Prudence returned. When I"d woken up and discovered she wasn"t yet back, I knew something was wrong. I"d given her my phone, but she never picked up my calls.” Constance indicated that Prudence had never seen who killed Ian O"Malley. She"d been locked inside the room in the library basement by Lloyd Nickels and witnessed Ian enter the space and try to unlock the door. Someone in a cloak had hit Ian on the head with a large piece of wood after starting a fire. Ian had briefly woken up, opened Prudence"s door, and then passed out. Prudence couldn"t save him and escaped through the tunnels. Constance"s story matched Father Elijah"s.
“Whom do you suspect?”
“Hiram is guilty, or he hired some
