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Updated: June 9, 2025
We continued up Denmark Hill until, at the corner where Champion Hill branches off, the inspector called to the cabman to stop, and we all descended, the detective-sergeant paying the fare. Where were they taking me? I wondered. I asked, but they only laughed, and would vouchsafe no reply.
Moved by some unaccountable impulse, Helen extended her hand to Leroux, who took it quietly in his own and held it, looking down at the slim fingers as though he derived strength and healing from their touch. "Poor boy," she said softly. Detective-Sergeant Sowerby was seated in Dunbar's room at New Scotland Yard.
Breton." Then he nodded from Spargo to the stolid-faced person. "This is Detective-Sergeant Rathbury, from the Yard," he said to Spargo. "He's come to take charge of this case." "Oh?" said Spargo blankly. "I see what," he went on, with sudden abruptness, "what shall you do about Breton?" "Get him to come and look at the body," replied Rathbury. "He may know the man and he mayn't.
His mind filled with troubled conjectures, he passed the house formerly occupied by the one-eyed Chinaman where he found Detective-Sergeant Coombes on duty and very much on the alert and followed the bank of the Thames in the direction of Limehouse Basin. The narrow, ill-lighted street was quite deserted. Bad weather and the presence of many police had driven the Asiatic inhabitants indoors.
But since his papers were in order, and since he possessed two eyes and wore no pigtail, he excited no more interest in the mind of Detective-Sergeant Coombes than did any one of the other Chinamen in the place.
Neither of us must leave these rooms to-night!" "What is the meaning of Si-Fan?" asked Detective-sergeant Fletcher. He stood looking from the window at the prospect below; at the trees bordering the winding embankment; at the ancient monolith which for unnumbered ages had looked across desert sands to the Nile, and now looked down upon another river of many mysteries.
He threw the book back on the desk, and coming to the hearthrug, took up a position with his back to the fire and his hands in the pockets of his trousers. He nodded politely as his visitors raised their glasses to him. "Is anything the matter, Mr. Detective-Sergeant?" he asked. Ayscough contrived to press his foot against Melky's as he gave a direct answer to this question.
Detective-Sergeant Sowerby reported himself in Inspector Dunbar's room at New Scotland Yard. "I have completed my inquiries in Wharf-end Lane," he said; and pulling out his bulging pocketbook, he consulted it gravely. Inspector Dunbar looked up. "Anything important?" he asked. "We cannot trace the makers of the sanitary fittings, and so forth, but they are all of American pattern.
At the station: "Wait," said Chief Inspector Kerry, and went swinging in, carrying his overall and having the malacca cane tucked under his arm. A few minutes later he came out again and reentered the cab. "Piccadilly corner of Old Bond Street," he directed the man. "Is it burglary?" asked Detective-Sergeant Coombes with interest. "No," said Kerry.
"They seemed to me to be all hands, that's all I know about 'em," he ses. "Arter they 'ad finished they leaned me up agin the dock wall an' went off." "It sounds like 'em," ses the tec, thoughtfully. "It was Long Pete and Fair Alf, for a quid; that's the two I'm arter." He put his finger in 'is weskit-pocket. "That's who I am," he ses, 'anding Sam a card; "Detective-Sergeant Cubbins.
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