A Divided Command
“If there was a hint of doubt in Hodgeson’s mind as to the seriousness of this particular task it was no more than that until he met a possible source of good information.
It mattered not that he was a fellow so low in character that the sewer rats of London would avoid his company; it was necessary to stoop to discover and Jonathan Codge inhabited a world that knew the likes of Hodgeson only too well. Usually its denizens took good care to avoid him and his ilk, for they lived outside the l...aw, yet when he entered the grimy and dim basement tavern where Codge held court no one made a quick exit, for to do so would only arouse suspicion.
The man being sought was at his usual table and was, as always – and this was a mystery to any person of sense – surrounded by a small coterie of acolytes who seemed to hang on his every word, and there was no shortage of those. Codge had an opinion on everything as well as a particular fondness for singing his own praises.MoreLess
It mattered not that he was a fellow so low in character that the sewer rats of London would avoid his company; it was necessary to stoop to discover and Jonathan Codge inhabited a world that knew the likes of Hodgeson only too well. Usually its denizens took good care to avoid him and his ilk, for they lived outside the l...aw, yet when he entered the grimy and dim basement tavern where Codge held court no one made a quick exit, for to do so would only arouse suspicion.
The man being sought was at his usual table and was, as always – and this was a mystery to any person of sense – surrounded by a small coterie of acolytes who seemed to hang on his every word, and there was no shortage of those. Codge had an opinion on everything as well as a particular fondness for singing his own praises.MoreLess
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