measuring-tape

Updated: May 28, 2025

I did not, of course, inform him that I had come to buy an understudy for a deceased burglar. I looked over his stock with a steel measuring-tape in my hand, for a skeleton of about the right size sixty-three inches but I did not mention that size was a special object.

R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman - The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta