38Frank Abbott burst out laughing.
"And it doesn't get us anywhere at all! Exit Madoc. Exit Bush. Enter invisible murderer, s*x unknown. Nobody saw him except Ezra, and Ezra is no more. Please, teacher, who did it?"
Miss Silver remained silent.
He quirked an eyebrow at her and said,
"Strictly off the record and between ourselves?"
Miss Silver coughed.
"There is so little to go on--just a few straws in the wind--nothing that could be called evidence."
He gazed imploringly.
"Strictly off the record, teacher?"
She said gravely, "I think it was one of the people who went to the Ram on Monday afternoon."
His eye brightened.
"Do you include Bush?"
"I do not think that it was Bush."
Frank whistled.
"Who's left? Miss Doncaster, and possibly Everton, but there's no evidence to show th
