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The Chief Commissioner of Police was sitting in his pleasant room in Scotland Yard overlooking the Thames Embankment, but he looked anything but pleasant himself. Instead, he was scowling angrily as he perused the newspaper in his hands.
"Listen to this, Carter," he exclaimed scornfully to a tall spare man about forty years of age, who was gazing meditatively out of the window, "for downright nonsense it's hard to beat." He read slowly so that his subordinate could take in every word.