The Uttermost Farthing the Uttermost Farthing

Excerpt: ... the information that several police officials were in the house interrogating the servants. Far from annoying Pargeter, the fact seemed to afford him some gratification, for it proved that he was after all quite as important a personage as he believed himself to be. He gave orders that the men were to be liberally supplied with drink. An hour later came a high official from the Pr