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The twenty-fourth edition was all owing to the murder. Did you do that?" "You take one up so sharply, Mr. Grodman," said Denzil, changing his tone. "No I've retired," laughed Grodman. Denzil did not reprove the ex-detective's flippancy. He even laughed a little. "Well, give me another fiver, and I'll cry 'quits. I'm in debt." "Not a penny. Why haven't you been to see me since the murder?
In a moment the first-floor window was raised the little house was of the same pattern as her own and Grodman's full fleshy face loomed through the fog in sleepy irritation from under a nightcap. Despite its scowl the ex-detective's face dawned upon her like the sun upon an occupant of the haunted chamber. "What in the devil's the matter?" he growled.
If the ex-detective's wife had not been present, and if this conversation had not taken place in her presence, Franklin might have been more easy to deal with. But the presence of a third party shut his mouth. So Morley could do nothing, and made no attempt to do anything. Had Giles known of this it might have set his mind at rest, for he could not get out of his head that he was being followed.
The "Javerts," "Old Sleuths" and "Buckets" of Fiction as Contrasted with the Genuine Article Popular Notions of Detective Work Altogether Erroneous An Ex-Detective's Views The Divorce Detective. We are told that "all the world loves a lover," and it is, perhaps, equally true that most people like to read the details of clever detective exploits.
And so to Tallington Brereton, arriving just after the solicitor had finished reading his morning's letters, poured out the whole story which he had learned from the ex-detective's scrap-book and from the memorandum made by Stoner in his pocket-book.
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