There was no rain as dawn hesitantly broke, but the sky was dark and low. Anything might happen. Detective-Constable Peddar was on the job at daybreak. He was sitting in a police-car in Sackville Street, watching the gate of The Sycamores and ready to follow Sammy Barnes on an excursion to the ends of the earth, if needs be. He was an earnest young man, eager to get on and in the duties of the coming day he saw a chance of doing it. He sat as low as possible in his vehicle, which, on Cromwell’s advice, he’d parked in front of the church. ‘It’ll look as though you’ve gone inside to say your prayers,’ the sergeant had told him. Peddar had also given a lift, under cover of darkness, to Detective-Constable Stopford, who was jovial, but keen. Stopford’s cracks about the November dawn got on Peddar’s nerves a bit. He was concentrating on the work assigned to him, and was relieved when he was able to drop his companion at the end of July Street and brood upon the task in hand.
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