la Recherche du Temps Perdu “I’ve been forty years in the Metropolitan Police Force,” said Barstow, “and I can’t remember anything like it.” “It’s a pretty good tangle,” agreed Haxtell. They were in Haxtell’s office at Crown Road. A week had gone by since a jury had found Howton guilty of capital murder and Mr Justice Rowan had pronounced sentence of death on him; an event which had attracted the routine amount of press comment and the routine protests, but no more. Even the most ardent opponents of capital punishment had not felt Boot Howton to be a very promising martyr. “The story about us finding the second body got into the local papers,” said Haxtell. “Somebody saw the ambulance driving away with it and put two and two together. Naturally they all jumped to the conclusion that it was Ricketts who had been found. And we haven’t taken any steps to undeceive them, yet.” “They weren’t the only people who thought it was Ricketts,” said Barstow. “No, indeed.”
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