Why shouldthey bother about it, with all that
necessity to hurry, hurry?
Tommy, but in my bright lexicon there is no such
word as reform.
He took it from under his coat and handed it to
her.
The last thing in the world I want to do is start a
detective agency. Im the trustee of the Selford estate, he said again, and I wish to
heaven I wasnt. You would greatly oblige me, Martin, if you saw this
gentleman.
Dick Martin had seen him in many circumstances, but
never so beautifully and perfectly arrayed. I desired to borrow, so I took it with
me.
He waited suggestively, but Lew Pheeney shook his
head.
The bearded man growled something and opened the
door wide. Will you come up to coffee in about a quarter of an hour?
Farther the strange man did not invite him. You can
guess all round it, but youll never guess right. I know the gang that did it, and
you know em too, and we dont change cards. Dick put down the book and rose to his
seventy - two inches. The Commissioner sent me a message this evening, and I was
expecting you to call at my office. There was anxiety and urgency in the tone. For a
second she surveyed him gravely, her red lips pursed.
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I dont want to talk about it, but the locks beat
me. It is only a mile from here; you can step over and ask if you like.
As he would say, modesty is not his
summersuiting.
Dick, without being extremely wealthy, was in a
very comfortable position.
This man is hell, and Id as soon face the devil as
go through another night like I had on Tuesday. Now I have finished with it and it
may go back. Sneed often said that he had the mind of a thief, and meant this as a
compliment.
As he went down the stone stairs, he was overtaken
by the third commissioner. Dick Martin came to the Yard from Canada, where his
father had been governor of a prison. He half rose and offered his firm, thin hand.
Half way through I said I wanted to go out, and, once outside, I
bolted.
That makes you jump, but it is the truth.