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"Much too soon! All I want is detective help of the strictly professional kind. No we'll give Mr. Pratt a little more rope yet for another four-and-twenty-hours, say. But it'll come! Now, who is the best local detective a quiet, steady fellow who knows how to do his work unobtrusively?" "Prydale's the man!" said Eldrick "Detective-Sergeant Prydale I've had reason to employ him, more than once.
They separated at the door of Foyle's room at headquarters, and an impatient detective-sergeant, whose duty it was to weed out callers, promptly headed Heldon Foyle off. "A man's been waiting to see you, sir," he said. "He refused to give his name, but said he had some important information which he would only give to you personally. He wouldn't hear of seeing any one else." "Yes, of course.
"Well, if it comes to that, my lad," said the man, "I'm Detective-Sergeant Ayscough known well enough around these parts! I came to see the old gentleman about these papers. Now what was your business, then?" He was watching Lauriston very keenly, and Lauriston, suddenly realizing that he was in an awkward position, determined on candour.
"It will take a good deal to persuade me of that," he retorted. "Mr. "Detective-Sergeant Finch." "Mr. Finch. Did the doctor say suicide?" "I did not hear him express a definite opinion. Did you, inspector?" "No, Mr. Finch. I rather presumed the doctor took it for granted." "Took it for granted!" Henshaw echoed contemptuously. "I'm not going to take it for granted, I can tell you.
"Don't do that!" snapped the proprietor of the bowler; "you should know better! Who was that gentleman?" "Sir Brian Malpas, sir." "Sir Brian Malpas?" "Yes, sir." "And the other?" "I don't know, sir. I have never seen him before." "H'm!" grunted Detective-Sergeant Sowerby, walking across the road toward the Park with his hands thrust deep in his pockets; "I have! What the deuce is Max up to?
But neither Gabriel nor Joseph Chestermarke appeared to have any proper appreciation of the dignity of a detective-sergeant of the Criminal Investigation Department, and their eyes had regarded him as if he were something very inferior indeed.
He possessed a black mustache, a breezy, bustling manner, and humorous blue eyes; furthermore, when he took off his hat, he revealed the possession of a head of very bristly, upstanding, black hair. This was Detective-Sergeant Sowerby, and the same who was engaged in examining a newspaper in the study of Henry Leroux when Dr.
The diamond expert permitted his gaze to wander from one to another of the three men, and then the beady black eyes came to rest on the silent, outstretched figure of the old man. He started forward impulsively; the grip of Detective-Sergeant Connelly on his arm stopped him. "You're my prisoner!" "Yes, I understand," said Mr. Czenki impatiently.
He passed the man who had been so eagerly intent on the bookshop. The man made a clutch at him, missed and fell headlong right in the path of Fairfield, now a few paces behind. The baronet tripped over his body and was thrown violently to the ground. Foyle made a mental note in favour of Detective-Sergeant Chambers, who had so adroitly intercepted the pursuit.
I had the misfortune, as you know, to offend him by my choice of a profession; but you will be glad to hear that I have risen from P.C. to detective-sergeant, and am doing well. 'I have made a few inquiries about the movements of our lamented father and Mrs.
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