The Fourth Plague
“—TILLIZINI LEAVES A MARK THE PERIOD OF ULTIMATUM was drawing to a close. For four days longer England had the opportunity of agreeing to the terms which the “Red Hand” had laid down.
In his big library at Downing Street, occupying the chair which great and famous men had occupied for the past century, the Prime Minister, grave and preoccupied, sat in conference with Tillizini.
The Italian was unusually spick and span that morning. He had dressed himself with great care, an ominous sign ...for the organization he had set himself to exterminate. For this was one of his eccentricities, and it had passed into a legend among the criminal classes in Italy, that a neat Tillizini was a dangerous Tillizini. There is a saying in Florence, “Tillizini has a new coat—who is for the galleys?”
The Prime Minister was fingering his pen absently, making impossible little sketches upon his blotting pad.
“Then you associate the disappearance of Miss Marjorie Meagh with the operations of the ‘Red Hand’?”MoreLess
In his big library at Downing Street, occupying the chair which great and famous men had occupied for the past century, the Prime Minister, grave and preoccupied, sat in conference with Tillizini.
The Italian was unusually spick and span that morning. He had dressed himself with great care, an ominous sign ...for the organization he had set himself to exterminate. For this was one of his eccentricities, and it had passed into a legend among the criminal classes in Italy, that a neat Tillizini was a dangerous Tillizini. There is a saying in Florence, “Tillizini has a new coat—who is for the galleys?”
The Prime Minister was fingering his pen absently, making impossible little sketches upon his blotting pad.
“Then you associate the disappearance of Miss Marjorie Meagh with the operations of the ‘Red Hand’?”MoreLess
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