Rintoul had fallen face down with his hands doubled under him. Madoc did find the tumbler he’d been drinking from; it had rolled under the stove. The indication was that he’d dropped it when he fell. Since Rintoul hadn’t lifted a hand yesterday to tidy up after himself, it was unlikely he was bringing the tumbler back to be washed. More probably, he’d been meaning to get himself another drink, and that was interesting. He couldn’t have been worried about getting murdered. Yesterday morning Rintoul, along with everybody else, had heard Ace Bulligan talking about that early news bulletin. Last night, he’d heard Madoc and Rick confirm the report that Wilhelm Ochs had been poisoned. Maybe he’d thought he knew who’d murdered Ochs, and that the culprit was among those who’d gone by train. Maybe he knew the real killer was here at the Miners’ Rest, and had been stabbed because he couldn’t be trusted not to tell. Maybe he himself had killed Ochs, and had been murdered out of revenge.
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