Frequent Hearses
“It was not a paper which Humbleby read, except when his business compelled him to or when, for masochistic or argumentative reasons, he felt the need to convince himself of the imminent collapse of all moral and cultural values. But on this fateful Monday it was on his desk by five past three, carried there by a sergeant with the air of those heralds in Greek tragedy who convey calamitous and often barely credible news to choruses of aghast and wondering citizens.
Humbleby had twice refused... promotion, since he was not anxious for the increase in purely administrative work which it would certainly involve; but in spite of this (or perhaps even because of it) he was a person of some consequence at Scotland Yard, and his rage—the more impressive because it was so rare—spread through that elaborate hierarchy like an etheric wave. Indeed, the oily young man from the Mercury who brought him the original of Nicholas Crane’s letter received from him such summary and shattering treatment that on emerging from the building he had to go to the park and sit down in order to recover himself.MoreLess
Humbleby had twice refused... promotion, since he was not anxious for the increase in purely administrative work which it would certainly involve; but in spite of this (or perhaps even because of it) he was a person of some consequence at Scotland Yard, and his rage—the more impressive because it was so rare—spread through that elaborate hierarchy like an etheric wave. Indeed, the oily young man from the Mercury who brought him the original of Nicholas Crane’s letter received from him such summary and shattering treatment that on emerging from the building he had to go to the park and sit down in order to recover himself.MoreLess
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