The Third Policeman
‘See that you regularize your irregularity instantaneously,’ he called as his good-bye, ‘and set right your irrectitude and put the murderer in the cage before he rips the bag out of the whole countryside.’
After that he was gone. Sounds came to us of sparse scraping on the gravel, a sign that the Inspector favoured the old-fashioned method of mounting from the back-step.
And then:
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