The Girl in Blue
“It is he who, even if he is a Crispin Scrope, is supposed to have a head wiser than the ordinary; it is to him that the residents bring their problems and grievances.
As Constable Ernest Simms, the local police force, was about to do on the day following Crispin’s return from London.’ He trudged up the drive of Mellingham Hall, an impressive figure well calculated to strike terror into the hearts of evildoers, and was admitted by Crispin’s butler, at whom he cast a stony look, returned with one... even stonier.’ They were not on good terms.’ ‘Hullo, ugly,’ said the butler. ‘And what might you be wanting?’ ‘Not any of your impertinence,’ was the frigid reply. ‘I wish to see Mr Scrope.”
‘Does he wish to see you,’ said the butler, ‘that’s the question.’ All right, go on up and spoil his day. He’s in the library.”
The library was on the second floor, a large sombre room brooded over by hundreds of grim calf-bound books assembled in the days when the reading public went in for volumes of collected sermons and had not yet acquired a taste for anything with spies and a couple of good murders in it.’ It had always oppressed Crispin, but it had this one great advantage, that it was never invaded by paying guests.MoreLess
As Constable Ernest Simms, the local police force, was about to do on the day following Crispin’s return from London.’ He trudged up the drive of Mellingham Hall, an impressive figure well calculated to strike terror into the hearts of evildoers, and was admitted by Crispin’s butler, at whom he cast a stony look, returned with one... even stonier.’ They were not on good terms.’ ‘Hullo, ugly,’ said the butler. ‘And what might you be wanting?’ ‘Not any of your impertinence,’ was the frigid reply. ‘I wish to see Mr Scrope.”
‘Does he wish to see you,’ said the butler, ‘that’s the question.’ All right, go on up and spoil his day. He’s in the library.”
The library was on the second floor, a large sombre room brooded over by hundreds of grim calf-bound books assembled in the days when the reading public went in for volumes of collected sermons and had not yet acquired a taste for anything with spies and a couple of good murders in it.’ It had always oppressed Crispin, but it had this one great advantage, that it was never invaded by paying guests.MoreLess
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