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Detectives and Young Adventurers: The Complete Short Stories
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2018
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‘I could fetch a bobby now,’ said Albert helpfully.
But Tommy, looking up, caught a very faint negative movement of the girl’s head, and took his cue accordingly.
‘We’ll let him off this time,’ he remarked. ‘Nevertheless I shall give myself the pleasure of kicking him downstairs – if it’s only to teach him manners to a lady.’
He removed the rope, hauled the victim to his feet, and propelled him briskly through the outer office.
A series of shrill yelps was heard and then a thud. Tommy came back, flushed but smiling.
The girl was staring at him with round eyes.
‘Did you – hurt him?’
‘I hope so,’ said Tommy. ‘But these dagoes make a practice of crying out before they’re hurt – so I can’t be quite sure about it. Shall we come back into my office, Miss March, and resume our interrupted conversation? I don’t think we shall be interrupted again.’
‘I’ll have my lasso ready, sir, in case,’ said the helpful Albert.
‘Put it away,’ ordered Tommy sternly.
He followed the girl into the inner office and sat down at his desk, whilst she took a chair facing him.
‘I don’t quite know where to begin,’ said the girl. ‘As you heard that man say, I was a passenger on the Nomadic. The lady you advertised about, Miss O’Hara, was also on board.’
‘Exactly,’ said Tommy. ‘That we know already but I suspect you must know something about her doings on board that boat, or else that picturesque gentleman would not have been in such a hurry to intervene.’
‘I will tell you everything. The American Ambassador was on board. One day, as I was passing his cabin, I saw this woman inside, and she was doing something so extraordinary that I stopped to watch. She had a man’s boot in her hand –’
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