CHAPTER XXIV

DICK HAD the room next to the superintendent’s, a small, narrow apartment which was used, at a pinch, to detain suspected criminals brought to the Yard for examination. There were steel bars on the window and the furniture was of a solid and immovable kind, a necessary precaution since that memorable occasion when “Lupe” Leggatt almost brained his interrogator with a handy chair. Since that occurrence the furniture had been of the simplest and the unhandiest kind. He sat down now in his big writing chair to read th…