Monday 15 June 2015

Hello!, Bell and Fletcher #1

‘And that’s your explanation, is it?’

‘Yes.’

‘Republican insurrectionists from France?’

‘Yes.’

‘And you are sure, Inspector?’

‘Yes, what else could it be?’

Bell’s sigh was brim full of impatience and the weariness of experience, and the unexpected feeling that there had been no further developments in the case since it was handed over to the police. ‘Well, you do tend to rely on that particular group of imaginary suspects in situations such as this. I mean, last month you had the owner of the Abbey Cinema arrested for being a French republican agent.’

‘He was showing subversive films.’

‘He was only showing films that had been shown at the British Film Institution earlier. Last I heard no one has been arrested in London.’

The Inspector was defiantly deflated, like a child sulking. ‘They do things differently-’

‘Not that differently.’

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