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Updated: June 16, 2025
He went to his room and lay down on his bed fully dressed. He was aroused from a troubled sleep by the jangle of the 'phone. It was McNorton. "Come down to Scotland House and see the Assistant-Commissioner," he said, "he is very anxious to hear more about this factory. He tells me that you have already given him an outline of the plot."
"I remember him. The little fellow I wrote a story about," I said. "Is he in the Service?" "No. Strick got him into the Centro-Euro-Africa Protectorate. He's Assistant-Commissioner at Dupe wherever that is. Somaliland, ain't it, Stalky?" asked the Infant. Stalky puffed out his nostrils scornfully. "You're only three thousand miles out. Look at the atlas."
Here it is; you can read for yourself: 'On the instruction of our client, Major Bromham, late 16th Bengal Lancers, we have to inform you of the death, by syncope, at Calcutta, on the 5th of July last, of your brother, Lionel Flood, Esq., late of the Indian Civil Service, Assistant-Commissioner; and also that by the terms of his will, executed' so-and-so 'of which our client is the surviving executor, etc. all precious formal and cold-blooded.
Two thousand rounds of ammunition were with them in a truck-cart, but none was distributed. Meanwhile the telephones had been busy. The Assistant-Commissioner of Dublin Police, Mr. Harrel, an energetic officer, was informed, and he acted instantly. The Under-Secretary, permanent official head of Dublin Castle, was at his Lodge in the Phoenix Park some two miles distant: Mr.
Soon after the Mutiny the fort began to overflow, for the country was now getting more settled, and British officers could venture to build houses outside the walls of fortified enclosures. Thus the Assistant-Commissioner migrated eight hundred yards to the south-east, while an officers' mess was built on the river bank two hundred yards to the north-west.
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