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Excerpt from The Maelstrom
Then it was that he noticed an electric switch and pulled it over. A rush of light ?ooded the room and he tottered to one of the Jacobean armchairs at the head of the table. The sledge-hammer was still swing ing at his temples and things swayed dizzily to and fro before his eyes. He made a resolute effort to pull himself together. His eyes roved over the room, and he noticed a pedestal telephone on a small table in the corner furthest. From him.
What was the name of the chap Pinkerton gave me an introduction to, he muttered, and drawing a bundle of papers from his breast pocket, sorted them till the envelope he needed lay at the top.
Chief Detective Inspector Weir Menzies, New Scotland Yard, S. W.
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