Young Petrella (2013)
“For in his brief and exciting career he managed to cause quite an extraordinary amount of unpleasantness and ill feeling.
It started with Chief Inspector Haxtell being summoned to an interview with his Divisional superior, Superintendent Barstow. (“There’s a little matter I’d like to discuss with you, Haxtell.”) Barstow was big, red and almost permanently angry. In this case, no doubt, there were excuses. He himself had received a rocket from the District Chief Superintendent, and his interpretation of discipline was that if you got a rocket, you passed it on, without delay and at compound interest, to your own immediate subordinates.
Haxtell came back to Highside Police Station, kicked the wastepaper basket, and sent for Detective Sergeant Gwilliam.
“They’re getting worried higher up,” he said, “about the Nipper.”
“Yes,” said the Sergeant, cautiously. He was an expert weather prophet.
“Apparently the local Chamber of Commerce has taken the matter up. I’m afraid the Superintendent and... the Mayor haven’t been seeing eye to eye since that row they had over the last civic function.MoreLess
It started with Chief Inspector Haxtell being summoned to an interview with his Divisional superior, Superintendent Barstow. (“There’s a little matter I’d like to discuss with you, Haxtell.”) Barstow was big, red and almost permanently angry. In this case, no doubt, there were excuses. He himself had received a rocket from the District Chief Superintendent, and his interpretation of discipline was that if you got a rocket, you passed it on, without delay and at compound interest, to your own immediate subordinates.
Haxtell came back to Highside Police Station, kicked the wastepaper basket, and sent for Detective Sergeant Gwilliam.
“They’re getting worried higher up,” he said, “about the Nipper.”
“Yes,” said the Sergeant, cautiously. He was an expert weather prophet.
“Apparently the local Chamber of Commerce has taken the matter up. I’m afraid the Superintendent and... the Mayor haven’t been seeing eye to eye since that row they had over the last civic function.MoreLess
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