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A whizzing rush to the highroad and down it to the point where his confederate waited with the new number-plates; and he could snap his fat fingers at pursuit. Dugan had called at the Place, a week earlier. He had taken interested note of the little garage's two cars and of the unlocked garage doors.
The Lloyd's garage he mentioned was in Bloomsbury, a place kept for the accommodation of motor-thieves. Many a car which disappeared quickly found its way there, and in a few hours the engine numbers were removed and fresh ones substituted, while the bodies were repainted and false number-plates attached.
I never see one, but I wonder if he has been timing me, or quarrelling with my number-plates, or doing one or other of those things which policemen do, and we poor devils pay for. This time I was right down afraid, and made no bones about it.
The train stopped. Porters in white aprons and number-plates bustled about the passengers and seized their boxes.
A few moments after Pauline's departure Louis Wrentz and his companions set to work. Two of the men left the room and sauntered to opposite ends of the hall where they lingered on watch. Wrentz and the other man stepped out briskly and each with a screwdriver in his hand began unfastening the number-plates over the doors of rooms 22 and 24.
I chose the road to Salisbury, and after "blinding" for half an hour, I stopped and put on the false number-plates and license with which Rayne always provided me. It was as well that I did so, for in the gray morning as I went through Salisbury a police-sergeant and a constable hailed me just as I turned into St. John Street, near the White Hart, calling upon me to stop.
Had a car waiting for him in Oxford Street and when he saw there were no taxi-cabs about, jumped in and was driven eastward." "Did you get the number of the car?" asked McNorton. Beale smiled. "That's not much use," he said, "he's probably got two or three number-plates." He looked at his watch. "I'll go along to Kingston," he said.
"Well, in any case," remarked the Commissary of Police, "the pair have got clear away, and though we will do our best, it will no doubt be extremely difficult to rediscover them. They will change the number-plates on the car, and perhaps repaint it! Who knows? Despujol is one of the most desperate characters in all Europe!" "And Oswald De Gex is equally dangerous!"
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