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The Hand in the Dark

CHAPTER VII
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He was a saturnine sort of man, with a hooked nose, a skin like parchment, and a perfectly bald sugar-loaf head, surmounted at the top by a wen as large as a duck-egg.
His deferential attitude and obsequious tone whenever Superintendent Merrington chose to address a remark to him indicated that he had a proper official respect for the rank and standing of that gentleman.
Inspector Weyling was merely a police official.

He had no personal characteristics whatever, unless a hobby for breeding Belgian rabbits, and a profound belief that Mr.Lloyd George was the greatest statesman the world had ever seen, could be said to constitute a temperament.
The fifth man was Detective Caldew, who had just completed a narrative of the events of the previous night for the benefit of his colleagues, but more especially for Superintendent Merrington, in whose hands lay the power of directing the investigations of the crime.

It was by no wish of Detective Caldew that Superintendent Merrington had been brought into the case.

Caldew thought when the county inspector arrived and found a Scotland Yard man at work he would be only too glad to allow him to go on with the case, and he anticipated no difficulty in obtaining the consent of his official superiors at Scotland Yard to continuing the investigations he had commenced.

But Inspector Weyling, when notified of the crime by Sergeant Lumbe, had telephoned to the Chief Constable for instructions.


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