The Fugitive Queen
“I said. “I knew it! They left someone here to try and get hold of the body, if we gave them a chance—and that’s exactly what we did.”
“They weren’t robbers in the ordinary sense,” Ryder said thoughtfully. “We left the mules unguarded and still they didn’t help themselves to them. It’s odd. What do we do now?”
“But why take Harry away?” Sybil asked, distressed. “What was the point?”
Dodd said stolidly: “Very likely they never meant killing. But since they’d gone and done it just the same, maybe ...they wanted to get rid of the corpse. Be a bit difficult to make the authorities believe there’s been a murder if we can’t show them a body.”
Sybil said: “But what are we to do? We ought to get Meg to shelter. She should rest.”
And Meg, sitting in front of me on Roundel and still shivering, pressed her face against me and said: “I wish we could go home.”
“There’s no sense in going after them again, in search of Harry,” Dodd said quietly. “Because they won’t have taken him where they took Meg—at least, I wouldn’t think so.MoreLess
“They weren’t robbers in the ordinary sense,” Ryder said thoughtfully. “We left the mules unguarded and still they didn’t help themselves to them. It’s odd. What do we do now?”
“But why take Harry away?” Sybil asked, distressed. “What was the point?”
Dodd said stolidly: “Very likely they never meant killing. But since they’d gone and done it just the same, maybe ...they wanted to get rid of the corpse. Be a bit difficult to make the authorities believe there’s been a murder if we can’t show them a body.”
Sybil said: “But what are we to do? We ought to get Meg to shelter. She should rest.”
And Meg, sitting in front of me on Roundel and still shivering, pressed her face against me and said: “I wish we could go home.”
“There’s no sense in going after them again, in search of Harry,” Dodd said quietly. “Because they won’t have taken him where they took Meg—at least, I wouldn’t think so.MoreLess
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