Hiroshima Joe (2013)
“He had not called Sandingham to the building in Kowloon City, for that might have attracted the attention of the police; instead, he had had him summoned to a small but very comfortable house set in pine trees above the Castle Peak Road just beyond the eleventh milestone.
Alighting from the bus, Sandingham had followed the directions he had been given over the telephone – he had received the call at a specified hour on a telephone in the rear of an apothecary’s shop by the railway bridge in Wat...erloo Road – and found himself at a pair of wrought-iron gates hung on stone pillars and leading on to a curving concrete driveway set with pebbles. It had rained in the night and water was sluicing down the culvert to the side of the gate. The pebbles shone.
In a tin box screwed to the left-hand pillar was a button. He pressed it. What he supposed from his dress to be a gardener came to the gate and asked him his name. He gave it. The man surveyed the world outside and Sandingham realised that the gate was so constructed as to give a good one-hundred-and-seventy-degree view of the Castle Peak Road along which afternoon traffic was steadily flowing.MoreLess
Alighting from the bus, Sandingham had followed the directions he had been given over the telephone – he had received the call at a specified hour on a telephone in the rear of an apothecary’s shop by the railway bridge in Wat...erloo Road – and found himself at a pair of wrought-iron gates hung on stone pillars and leading on to a curving concrete driveway set with pebbles. It had rained in the night and water was sluicing down the culvert to the side of the gate. The pebbles shone.
In a tin box screwed to the left-hand pillar was a button. He pressed it. What he supposed from his dress to be a gardener came to the gate and asked him his name. He gave it. The man surveyed the world outside and Sandingham realised that the gate was so constructed as to give a good one-hundred-and-seventy-degree view of the Castle Peak Road along which afternoon traffic was steadily flowing.MoreLess
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