Who Killed Stella Pomeroy? (2016)
“He found the senior partner as good as his word: he was in his chair by that hour.
“You’ve had no answer yet to your cable, Mr Jackman?”
“No, Mr Richardson, but I’m expecting one any minute. Have you anything to tell me about that young man?”
“The young man of studious habits? Yes, I have. A certain informant who knows him tried last night to interest him in discussing English literature. The young man had never heard of George Bernard Shaw, and he believed H.G. Wells to be an inven...tor of a cure for the liver. Further, he admitted that he never read anything but newspapers, and his companion upset his glass of beer, which seemed to be a preconcerted signal for covering up lapses on the part of the young man who represents himself as Edward Maddox.”
“That certainly suggests that he is an impostor, but we shall know as soon as I receive a reply to my cable.”
At that moment a junior clerk entered with a telegram.MoreLess
“You’ve had no answer yet to your cable, Mr Jackman?”
“No, Mr Richardson, but I’m expecting one any minute. Have you anything to tell me about that young man?”
“The young man of studious habits? Yes, I have. A certain informant who knows him tried last night to interest him in discussing English literature. The young man had never heard of George Bernard Shaw, and he believed H.G. Wells to be an inven...tor of a cure for the liver. Further, he admitted that he never read anything but newspapers, and his companion upset his glass of beer, which seemed to be a preconcerted signal for covering up lapses on the part of the young man who represents himself as Edward Maddox.”
“That certainly suggests that he is an impostor, but we shall know as soon as I receive a reply to my cable.”
At that moment a junior clerk entered with a telegram.MoreLess
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