XIIIJim Fancourt leaned forward suddenly.
“We’ll have to try and find the house.”
Miss Silver looked at him.
“I can’t see any other way,” he said.
“How do you propose to find it?”
He began to speak, not as if he was talking to her, but rather as if he was thinking aloud.
“If it’s an empty house it won’t be so difficult. To be used for a murder like that, the house would either be empty or the people would be away—or else they’d be the tenants, I don’t think that’s so very likely. No, I should think it lay between the first two—either a dead empty house, or one where the people are away. Yes, that’ll be it.” He changed his tone and spoke directly to Miss Silver. “I’ve been down to the people Anne stayed with—or rather she didn’t stay with them. I didn’t like to send her straight to my
