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The County Inspector sat in his little office study, gazing with moody brows at the rows of figures in a leathern pocket-book. His handsome face was not pleasant to look at. He shut the book with a vicious snap, and tossed it into a drawer of his writing-table, which he shut and locked.
His official room was in the barracks; but here at home he reserved this little dingy study for other sorts of business. It was only furnished with a leather-topped writing-table, some chairs, an old mahogany book-case filled with musty volumes on law and sport, while a gun-rack and some hunting crops ornamented the walls. Above the mantel-shelf was a small oval mirror in a wide gilt frame, and below it were a medley of pipes, cigar-cases, and tobacco-jars.