37In the Governor's office Evan Madoc wrote a fierce black signature at the foot of his statement.
"There you are!" he said without any respect at all. "And now, I suppose, you will do your best to hang me!"
Miss Silver gave a faint hortatory cough. She rose to her feet with the air of a teacher dismissing a class. A spark of angry humour came and went in Madoc's eyes. She smiled at him as she came over and gave him her hand.
"I hope I shall see you again very soon," she said, and felt the long nervous fingers twitch.
She went out, and was presently followed by Sergeant Abbott, who tucked a hand inside her arm and took her out to lunch at the Royal George, which is the gloomiest and most respectable hotel in Marbury. It has a Regency front, a rabbit warren of older rooms with low ceili
