‘How: anyhow?’
‘If Bill wanted to go somewhere he would fly. He wouldn’t take a train.’
‘Lots of people take a night train because it saves time. You sleep and travel at the same time. The question is: why as Charles Martin?’
‘I think it’s a case for Scotland Yard.’
‘I don’t think the Yard would thank us.’
‘I’m not asking for their thanks,’ Cullen said tartly, ‘I’m instructing them to find out what happened to my buddy.’
‘I still don’t think they would be interested.’
‘They’d better be!’
‘You have no evidence at all that Bill Kenrick didn’t duck of his own accord; that he isn’t having a good time on his own until it is time to go back to OCAL.’
‘But he was found dead in a railway compartment!’ Cullen said in a voice that was nearly a howl.