Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1860 edition. Estratto: ...reached the police-station, after sending Gerald off to the best hotel in the town, and bidding him make no move till he came to him. Equally surprising was the effect he produced on the rural police by his presence and self ...
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Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1860 edition. Estratto: ...reached the police-station, after sending Gerald off to the best hotel in the town, and bidding him make no move till he came to him. Equally surprising was the effect he produced on the rural police by his presence and self-introduction, for they justly regarded it as a compliment. Plenty of detectives had sniffed round the glittering bait, but they were nobodies. Here, however, was Mr Traill himself, hand in glove, so to speak, with all the London magistrates and the fieur de poix of Scotland Yard, come all the way to their town to investigate the matter of the marriage register. "I was coming down this way on a matter of business," he said affably to the superintendent as they sat enjoying their coffee, "and I thought I might as well call in and hear if you had found out anything about that business." And, in lieu of explaining his meaning, Mr Traill merely pointed to the huge poster on the wall. "No, I am sorry to say, and we have been awfully laughed at surely. But what could we do against a parcel of London thieves? Why, I believe there was four on 'em." "Indeed, and have you any idea what they looked like?" "Why, yes, after the affair was over one of my men gave me the description of four persons he saw, and strangers to him, drinking the night before at the Blue Ox, but no one seems to recognise any of 'em." "Hand the document here," said Mr Traill promptly. He read it carefully through, and laid his fingers thoughtfully to his nose. Evidently one of those men was known to him, by the description at any rate. "And in the vestry this bit of paper was found, thrown away after lighting a dark lanthorn as it seems." And the Superintendent produced a piece of...
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