The Saving Clause by H.C. McNeile — Read

Now, as all the world knows, there are places in London where a beneficent County Council permits a man to leave his motor-car for a period of time which renders the concession absolutely futile. In fact, the number of people who have had the last act of a play ruined by the haunting fear of going to prison for overstaying the time-limit has never been accurately ascertained. But it must run the unemployed very close.

And it was in one of these places--to wit, St. James's Square--that a large man was standing at three o'clock on an afternoon in June, engaged in conversation with an obliging attendant.