A Sword for the Baron (2014)
“Bristow would not lie; and Bristow believed that the miniature had been stolen.
But except for Sara Gentian, the house had been empty.
Mannering thought uneasily: there couldn’t have been anyone else hiding there, could there?
Bristow was glowering. This was the man of earlier days, with whom Mannering had had many a clash, the Bristow who knew what desperate chances Mannering was prepared to take when the mood and the situation demanded it.
“Now give me that sword,” Bristow ordered.
Mannering was wondering whether he had been seen; whether the girl would identify his appearance as well as the sound of his voice; whether by any chance one of the detectives had seen and recognised him but deliberately let him get away. A low ranking officer might well have thought it better to leave a man of Mannering’s eminence to Bristow.
“Mannering, if you don’t give me—”
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