The Doctor of Pimlico:Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime
Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime
9781465556967
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Library of Alexandria
Overview
IN WHICH CERTAIN SUSPICIONS ARE EXCITED A grey, sunless morning on the Firth of Tay. Across a wide, sandy waste stretching away to the misty sea at Budden, four men were walking. Two wore uniform—one an alert, grey-haired general, sharp and brusque in manner, with many war ribbons across his tunic; the other a tall, thin-faced staff captain, who wore the tartan of the Gordon Highlanders. With them were two civilians, both in rough shooting-jackets and breeches, one about forty-five, the other a few years his junior. Can you see them, Fellowes? asked the general of the long-legged captain, scanning the distant horizon with those sharp grey eyes which had carried him safely through many campaigns. No, sir, replied the captain, who was carrying the other’s mackintosh. I fancy they must be farther over to the left, behind those low mounds yonder
