Dandy Gilver And a Bothersome Number of Corpses
“Even if he had let us speak to Constable Reid we might have been struggling to unwind the plaited threads of poor Fleur’s history and convince him. Instead we spent the rest of the journey devising the plainest, clearest report into which such a twisty tale could be straightened out and when we finally fell out of the little train at Portpatrick again some thirty-six hours after we had left we went straight to the police station.
Constable Reid was on the back shift and we found him in the offi...ce all trussed up with his tunic closed and his hat on, ready to go out and make one of his rounds. Since the weather was so filthy, though – it had started raining almost precisely at the border on our journey north and sheets of water were coursing down over the sea, turning even this summer evening as black as January – he took little persuasion to abandon the plan and give us his ear.
‘Nobody’ll be out causin’ bother on a night like this,’ he said. After that his contributions dwindled.MoreLess
Constable Reid was on the back shift and we found him in the offi...ce all trussed up with his tunic closed and his hat on, ready to go out and make one of his rounds. Since the weather was so filthy, though – it had started raining almost precisely at the border on our journey north and sheets of water were coursing down over the sea, turning even this summer evening as black as January – he took little persuasion to abandon the plan and give us his ear.
‘Nobody’ll be out causin’ bother on a night like this,’ he said. After that his contributions dwindled.MoreLess
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