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He threw away the end of his cigar, picked up a fresh one from a box which stood on the table, pushed the box towards his visitors, and drew out a silver match- box. "What are the facts of this murder, Mr. Detective-Sergeant?" he asked quietly. "Murder is not done without some object as a rule."
This morning at four o'clock, in answer to a telephone call, Detective-Sergeant Miller, accompanied by another officer, went to 84, Cavendish Mansions, a flat occupied by Mrs. Meredith, and there found and took into custody Dr. Algernon Thun, who had escaped from Norwood Asylum. In the room was also found a man named Hoggins, a person well known to the police.
"He's got a passenger!" said Coombes amazedly. Inspector White, who was in charge of the cutter, rested his arm on Coombes' shoulder and stared across the moving tide. "I can see no one," he replied. "You're over anxious, Detective-Sergeant and I can understand it!" Coombes smiled heroically.
But the question needed no answer when we reached the landing, for through the open door of our friend's chambers I could see in the darkened room Anstey himself with two uniformed constables and a couple of plain-clothes men. "There has been no signal yet, sir," said one of the latter, whom I recognized as a detective-sergeant of our division. "No," said Thorndyke, "but the M.C. has arrived.
"I believe it to be the name, or perhaps the sigil, of an extensive secret society with branches stretching out into every corner of the Orient." We were silent for awhile. Inspector Weymouth, who sat in a chair near the window, glanced appreciatively at the back of his subordinate, who still stood looking out. Detective-sergeant Fletcher was one of Scotland Yard's coming men.
"I am the more honored," he declared, gallantly playing up to the other's courtesy. "This is Detective-Sergeant Sowerby, who is acting with me in the case." M. Gaston Max bowed low in acknowledgment of the introduction. "It is a pleasure to meet Detective-Sergeant Sowerby," he declared.
The sound of the movement was such as I had never before heard at night, and at first I felt frightened. But I always lock my door, therefore I felt secure. The noise was just like someone creeping along very slowly, with one boot creaking." "But if it was so loud that you could hear it with your door closed, it is strange that no one else heard it," the detective-sergeant remarked dubiously.
Nevertheless a distinguished member of the wizard family not only gained access to the imperial presence but also departed again unseen by any of the guards, and leaving all the gates locked behind him! If Detective-Sergeant Coombes had known this story he might not have experienced such complete confidence.
Now, at present, this case the joint case of the Hull affair and the Eastbourne Terrace affair, for they're without doubt both parts of one serious whole is in the hands of two of my best men. This is one of them: Detective-Sergeant Blindway. If and when Blindway wants any of you, he'll come to you.
"A better-hearted, kinder, more obliging people never lived," said this excellent judge, who after twenty-seven years of police service, returned to end his days among them. And my short experience of the Sligo folks confirms this statement. They were not all so reserved as Detective-sergeant Magee.
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