Honor's Kingdom
“Shifting it from one hand to another, as a child might do a ball of India rubber, he tantalized me. For he had come to realize that his suspicions did not match my own.
Back in the police rig we were, headed for Regent’s Park and the dead boy’s body. My thoughts were so intent upon the watch that I hardly marked the bustling world outside. That brass disk rolled from one of Wilkie’s hairy paws to the other, then back again. I wanted to reach out and seize it.
A contest of intertwined carriage w...heels delayed us by a rank of cabs and horses. The air smelled of hay and fresh droppings, and the day blazed.
Of a sudden, the inspector closed his fist. Hiding the watch to tease me.
“Now . . . not that I’m suspicious,” he began, as the rig rolled free again. “For ’ow could I be suspicious in the least? But I can see ’ow it might strike a body that this ’ere watch is uncommon interesting to certain parties, Major Jones.” He gave me a sideward glance, dark eyes peering through a thatch of whiskers.MoreLess
Back in the police rig we were, headed for Regent’s Park and the dead boy’s body. My thoughts were so intent upon the watch that I hardly marked the bustling world outside. That brass disk rolled from one of Wilkie’s hairy paws to the other, then back again. I wanted to reach out and seize it.
A contest of intertwined carriage w...heels delayed us by a rank of cabs and horses. The air smelled of hay and fresh droppings, and the day blazed.
Of a sudden, the inspector closed his fist. Hiding the watch to tease me.
“Now . . . not that I’m suspicious,” he began, as the rig rolled free again. “For ’ow could I be suspicious in the least? But I can see ’ow it might strike a body that this ’ere watch is uncommon interesting to certain parties, Major Jones.” He gave me a sideward glance, dark eyes peering through a thatch of whiskers.MoreLess
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