Chapter 11

Mr Campion looked greatly relieved. ‘Thank goodness the old bird fell for the house!’ he said. ‘Naturally I couldn’t get him to agree to take the place for any length of time before he’d seen it, but we couldn’t have him running up and down to town setting our homicidal pal on his track immediately. What do you think of them, Giles?’ ‘Nice old boy,’ said Giles. ‘Not unlike the Governor, only American. Same direct way of looking at you and saying exactly what comes into his head. I didn’t have much talk with young L…