CHAPTER XXI

AN EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR The whereabouts of Muriel Wilcox’s Bible remained a mystery for two days. It had been missing on the Friday. On the Sunday night it was discovered on the top of her pile of books in her locker. How it got there nobody knew, least of all its puzzled owner. Nancy Redmond could have had nothing to do with its return, whatever she knew about its loss, for she had been with the others all day, and had never been near the Fifth Form room. It seemed likely to remain unsolved when Nanciebel Trevithe…