The Chief Constable made an irritable gesture.
"He didn't tell anybody he was going?"
"Not unless he mentioned it to somebody other than Miss Starberth or Budge."
"Ah. Well, I'll talk to them. I don't want to hear anything more…. I say, there were no bad feelings between him and Martin, were there?"
"If there were, he concealed 'em admirably."
Saunders, stroking a plump pink chin, offered: "He may have come back by this time, you know. We haven't been at the Hall since last night."
Dr. Fell grunted. Rising with obvious reluctance, Sir Benjamin stood and worked with the point of his knife at the table blotter. - Then he made a schoolmaster's gesture, compressing his lips again.
"If you gentlemen don't mind, we'll go and have a look at the Governor's Room. I take it none of you went up there last night?… Good. - Then we shall begin with unprejudiced minds."
"I wonder," said Dr. Fell.
Something said, "Oooo-o" and gave a fluttering jump as they left the study, and Mrs. Fell went scuttling down the hall. They could see by the police constable's distracted expression that she had been talking-to him; and the constable was holding, with obvious embarrassment, a large doughnut.