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As there were two good men on duty that night, I did not see why I should remain at my desk, even though there was an unusual stir created in our small town by the grand ball given at The Evergreens. But just as I was preparing to start for home, an imperative ring called me to the telephone and I heard: "Halloo! Is this the police-station?" "It is."
As she did not appear to be in full possession of her mental faculties, she was sent to the Hôtel-Dieu, where she remained in a semi-comatose condition. Her memory did not go farther back than the hour of her application at the police-station. She was entirely ignorant of her previous history, and had even forgotten her name.
And I answered aloud, in a hollow voice: "To the police-station, of course, to give myself into custody for the murder of my father." When I thought it was Jack, though I loved him better than I loved my own life, I would have given him up to justice as a sacred duty. Now I knew it was myself, how could I possibly do otherwise?
The news of this second mysterious death flew round Highmarket and the neighbourhood like wild-fire. Brereton heard of it during the afternoon, and having some business in the town in connexion with Harborough's defence, he looked in at the police-station and found the superintendent in an unusually grave and glum mood. "This sort of thing's getting beyond me, Mr. Brereton," he said in a whisper.
Huntley's heart that he would fathom it, for private reasons of his own; and, in the impulse of the moment, he bent his steps there and then, towards the police-station, and demanded an interview with Roland Yorke's bete noire, Mr. Butterby. But the cathedral is not quite done with for the afternoon.
He stretched three of them gasping at his feet and put seven others to flight, with, respectively, a broken jaw, a split lip, a nose pouring blood, a fractured skull, a torn ear, a dislocated collar-bone, and broken ribs. He fell, however, and was dragged bleeding and disfigured, with his clothes in rags, to the nearest police-station, where, jumping about and bellowing, he spent the night.
But we had the tent, one of the fellows likes to sleep on shore, and so we all stayed. Say, this is a little bit of Russia, isn't it? Eb could give the Czar points. This is a new police-station, and he thought it ought not get rusty." "Find your quarters comfortable over there?" asked Mr. Daddles across the corridor. "Great!" said Ed Mason.
Ambulance officers were carrying away the wounded and dead on stretchers, and after Robertson had stayed a little while at the police-station and received information as to the number of people killed thus far, he walked in the direction of Broadway, having found the entrance to the Subway closed.
"If you mean to imply that the job was not a nice one, you lay yourself open to the retort that you proposed it. But for my part I've never seen, I never shall see, any reason for not publishing the letters." "That's just it!" "What ?" "The certainty of your not seeing was what made me go to you. When a man's got stolen goods to pawn he doesn't take them to the police-station." "Stolen?"
We admire this stalwart virtue, you and I, reverencing public opinion; all the same, charity has something to be said for it. 'Miss Nancarrow, eh? said Poole, dragging on his big overcoat. 'Don't know her. Kennington Road station, is it? 'You'd better finish your beer, Jim. 'So I will. Have a bit o' supper ready for the lad. Totty walked as far as the police-station.
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