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His own house was just across the road from Mallalieu's, and he and Brereton said goodnight and turned towards it as the Mayor strode quickly off in the direction of the police-station. From the little colony of new houses at the foot of the Shawl to the police station at the end of the High Street was only a few minutes' walk.
"However, we were really independent of her help. Our answers were waiting for us at the police-station, where I had directed Algar to send them. Nothing could be more conclusive. Mrs. Browner's house had been closed for more than three days, and the neighbours were of opinion that she had gone south to see her relatives.
Olva cried, "you didn't suppose that they wouldn't discover it all at the police-station in a minute! Two questions and you'd be done! Why, man !" "I didn't know. I thought it would be all right. I was all alone that afternoon, out for a walk by myself and you'd told me how you did it. I'd only got to tell the same story.
A line of stalls selling very simple food and tobacco, a stack of firewood, a police-station, a well, a horse-trough, a few trees, and, under them, some trampled ground dotted with the black ashes of old fires, are all that mark a parao on the Grand Trunk; if you except the beggars and the crows both hungry.
Looking very important, he inquired what had happened, and unhesitatingly gave his orders: "Take him to the police-station." As to the coupon, the policeman put it in his pocket; Ivan Mironov, together with his horse, was brought to the nearest station. IVAN MIRONOV had to spend the night in the police-station, in the company of drunkards and thieves.
In the former Keats was a welcome visitor from 1818 to 1820, and here he wrote many of his famous poems. Fanny Brawne, with her mother, occupied the adjacent house. Rosslyn Hill was formerly called Red Lion Hill, from a public-house which stood on the site of the present police-station. On the north side are a Unitarian chapel and schools approached by handsome iron gates.
To take one instance: Mr. Burleigh, the well-known war correspondent, and Mr. Winks were arrested and "run in" with Mr. J. Knight, a workman, for seditious language. I went down to the police-station to offer bail for the latter: Chief-Constable Howard accepted bail for Messrs. Burleigh and Winks, but refused it for Mr. Knight.
Since the end of October one could read in the eyes of the low-class Mohammedan natives their hope the massacre of the Christians. In the streets of Cairo they stared insolently at the European passers-by. Some even danced for joy on learning that the Sultan had declared the Holy War. Denounced to the police for this, they were incontinently bastinadoed at the nearest police-station.
"Though that'll only be for form's sake, because I shall take charge of it when I go round to the police-station presently they'll have got Burchill searched when I get there. Of course, I wasn't going to say anything up there, but Mrs. Engledew has been in with us at this, and she took Burchill and Dimambro in as beautifully as ever I saw it done in my life! Clever woman, that!
Now Mallalieu was by that time more certain than ever that Cotherstone was the murderer, and he felt sure that Cotherstone had no experience of that sort of thing. "Done with a single twist and a turn!" he muttered to himself as he walked back to the police-station. "Aye aye! that seems to show knowledge.
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