The Death Chamber
“He put away the layout of Calvary’s interior, and felt able to return to Caradoc House. Once inside he paused at the foot of the stairs, wondering whether to go back up to see Georgina, but decided it was better not to do so. He would get the details of his plan sorted out properly in his mind before he saw her again.
He was engaged in packing the Society’s files away: labelling and dating things as much as possible, and tying folders into neat bundles. It was dusty and unproductive work, b...ut it had to be done and Vincent would not have trusted anyone else to do it. So far nobody had told him what was going to happen to all these files, which was very discourteous; you would have thought he was owed that after so many years. But he was going to leave everything in apple-pie order for Huxley Small and the accountants, so that when they did move in, they would remark on what a very meticulous secretary the Society had had in Vincent Meade and wonder why they had not realized it before.MoreLess
He was engaged in packing the Society’s files away: labelling and dating things as much as possible, and tying folders into neat bundles. It was dusty and unproductive work, b...ut it had to be done and Vincent would not have trusted anyone else to do it. So far nobody had told him what was going to happen to all these files, which was very discourteous; you would have thought he was owed that after so many years. But he was going to leave everything in apple-pie order for Huxley Small and the accountants, so that when they did move in, they would remark on what a very meticulous secretary the Society had had in Vincent Meade and wonder why they had not realized it before.MoreLess
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