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Stebbing, also a young man, sandy-haired and freckled, who, having inspected Detective-Sergeant Jettison's professional card, gave him the best chair in the room and stared at him with a mingling of awe and curiosity which plainly showed that he had never entertained a detective before.
Nothing betokened romance or mystery in that essentially humble place, but it was in Jettison's mind that when he crossed its threshold he was on his way to discovering something that would possibly clear up the problem on which he was engaged. The staff of the Second Friendly was inconsiderable in numbers an outer office harboured a small boy and a tall young man; an inner one accommodated Mr.
He had been listening with absorbed attention to Jettison's theory, and he now rose from his chair and began to pace the room, hands in pockets, as if in deep thought. Suddenly he paused and looked at Mitchington. "This needs some reflection," he said. "Are you pressed for time?" "Not in the least," answered Mitchington, readily. "Our time's yours, sir. Take as long as you like."
"Do you know what Napoleon Bonaparte once gave as sound advice to police?" he asked. "No! Then I'll tell you. 'The art of the police, he said, 'is not to see that which it is useless for it to see. Good counsel, Mitchington!" The two men went away through the midnight streets, and kept silence until they were near the door of Jettison's hotel. Then Mitchington spoke. "Well!" he said.
Mitchington laughed a little awkwardly. "Oh, well, come, now, doctor!" he said. "Why, yes frankly, I'm inclined to Jettison's theory in fact, I'm certain that's the truth." "And your theory," inquired Ransford, turning to the detective, "is put it in a few words." "My theory and I'll lay anything it's the correct one! is this," replied Jettison. "Brake came to Wrychester with his secret.
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