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The Man Who Drove the Car
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Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
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ISBN13: 9798675979066
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 2 2020
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 2 2020
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Book Excerpt: ...s many more imploring the police outside to step up and stop it. For myself I made no bones about the matter; and, not wishing to appear in a police court next day, and thinking certainly that Lord Crossborough was as mad as any first-floor tenant of Hanwell, I pushed my way through the press and went off to the garage. Ten pound or no ten pound, I was for bed. Will you ask me if I was surprised when, going up to the car, the very first person I met was his lordship, with a cigar about seven inches long in his mouth, and as pretty a smile above his long black beard as I have seen this many a day.Well, my boy, says he, opening the door quite calmly and stepping inside with no more concern than if I had just driven him from the Carlton to Hyde Park Corner, well, now I think we shall soon have earned that extra ten-pound note. The next house is in Hertfordshire--three miles from Potter's Bar, on the road to Five Corners. Do you happen to know it, by the way?I could hardly answer him for amazeClose...