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One day, after having taken his third demerit on his roommate's account, the inspector having detected tobacco smoke in the room, Frank said: "Why don't you swear off on cigarettes, Bart? They don't do a fellow any good, and they are pretty sure to get him into trouble here at the academy." Hodge was in anything but a pleasant frame of mind, and he instantly retorted: "I know what you mean.
Upon the whole, prisoners feel that parole will not be granted if any means can be found or devised to prevent it; the good report of an entire county where a man formerly lived will not prevail against the adverse report of some inspector one enemy of a prisoner outweighs, in the board's estimation, the favorable words of many friends.
The two visitors stood near the hearth Ransford took a good look at them as he closed the door behind him. Mitchington he knew well enough; he was more interested in the other man, a stranger. A quiet-looking, very ordinary individual, who might have been half a dozen things but Ransford instantly set him down as a detective. He turned from this man to the inspector.
The inspector, to be sure, asserted with high confidence that he had clews but apparently they were tangled tracks reaching too far away to bring immediate results; neither would he confide what they were. Instead he shook his head sagely, cautioned patience, and merely observed he was giving the culprits plenty of rope. This information was disheartening enough to Mr.
Your keeping on the lights will hold them back, for they won't come in till the house is dark, so, in half an hour you can get off the job, switch off the lights and go to bed and stay there just as I told you before." Then Inspector Burke, having in mind the great distress of the man over the unfortunate entanglement of his son, was at pains to offer a reassuring word.
These traces were so many and so confused that I left them for Stevens' experienced eye and deft manipulation to separate and make plain to us. He is making an examination of them now, and will be able to report to you before night." The Inspector was a man of little pretense. He felt startled and showed it. "But this is a serious matter, Gryce." "Very serious."
He is at his old tricks. This time, however, he has gone too far. We will get him. Go on, Mr. Cameron!" When Cameron had concluded his story the Commissioner said to the orderly sharply: "Send me Inspector Dickson!" In a few moments Inspector Dickson appeared, a tall, slight man, with a gentle face and kindly blue eyes. "Inspector Dickson, how are we for men?
His thoughts seemed to disturb him painfully. Ever since he had heard of Inspector Fyles's coming to the village a sort of depression had settled like a cloud upon him a depression he could not shake off. Fyles was the last man he wished to see in Rocky Springs for several reasons.
Inspector Aylesbury blew his nose. "I know my job," he said. "If I had been called in there might have been a different tale to tell. But he was a foreigner, and he paid for his ignorance, poor fellow." Paul Harley took out his pipe and began to load it in a deliberate and lazy manner. Inspector Aylesbury turned his prominent eyes in my direction.
Murden was anxious to speak with the inspector and deliver his letters, but he wished to do it in a secret manner, so that no suspicions should be awakened that he was on a government mission, or that government was preparing to strengthen its force at Ballarat.
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