The Raphael Affair
“He’d had a dreadful morning. His secretary, hand-picked for her ability to persuade callers to go away, was sick. The very defensiveness he complained about in Tommaso’s secretary, he treasured in his own.In her absence, all the calls came straight through to his phone. Bottando had never realised there were so many; he’d managed to achieve virtually nothing all day. At first, he’d attempted just to let the thing ring and pretend to be out, but he couldn’t stand the thought of missing something... important. Some of the calls, at least, had justified his weak will. He had been busy, although his colleagues would have been a little surprised at his occupation. He was reading through his old cases, a carefully stuck-down folder of newspaper clippings reporting on his past triumphs. The past failures, of course, he left out. Lots of policemen have such things; it works wonders for promotion to be able, casually of course, to hand over accounts of how wonderful, how zealous and how effective you’ve been.MoreLess
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