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At an abnormally early hour the Deputy Commissioner of Police made a call at the Bureau of the Public Prosecutor, and it was Jim's good fortune to be the senior officer on duty, for his chief was nursing an attack of hay fever, and the sub-chief was at the Hereford Assizes, assisting justice in the case of a wife-poisoner whose trial was proceeding.
Sooper never spoke of Colonel Langley in any other way than as 'that long-nosed Deputy', sometimes with and occasionally without violent expletives. The Deputy seldom referred to Sooper save in terms of admiration and awe; for the feud which (according to Sooper) raged between him and headquarters was largely imaginary.