By Arthur B. Reeve
ISBN-10: 6051769501
ISBN-13: 9786051769509
What's the fascination we believe for the secret of the ghost tale? Is it of a similar nature because the fascination which we think for the secret of the detective tale? Of the latter fascination, the overdue Paul Armstrong used to claim that it was once simply because we're all as jam-packed with crime as Sing Sing—only we don't dare. therefore, could I ask, are we no longer fascinated about the ghost tale simply because, it doesn't matter what could be the clinical or skeptical bent of our minds, in our inmost souls, secretly probably, we're as packed with superstition as an obeah man—only we don't permit it free? Who shall say that he's capable of fling off flippantly the inheritance of numerous a long time of superstition? Is there now not a streak of superstition in us all? We snigger on the voodoo worshiper—then create our personal hoodooes, our puppy obsessions. it's been acknowledged that guy is incurably spiritual, that if all religions have been blotted out, guy might create a brand new faith.
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The jobs I had done for the Three Kings had been more than a few and often less than legal. But it had gotten me started in Glasgow after I had been demobbed and the work had suited me more back then, still under the shadow of the mountain of crap that had built up behind me during the war. But now, I hoped, things were beginning to change. I was beginning to change. I had, however, made a point of making it known to those to whom it should be made known that I was running the security for a particular company’s particular wages run, and that I could develop a particularly good memory for faces if anyone tried to stick us up.
I blew a long whistle and probably looked more impressed than I should have in front of Ferguson. One hundred and two thousand in total was a massive amount of money, particularly in pre-war Glasgow. It was no surprise that everyone assumed that Gentleman Joe had done a disappearing act. It was, after all, the kind of money that could buy you a new, luxurious life anywhere and have enough left over to buy the silence of others. It was also, I realized, more than enough to post off three thousand a year from small change.
Bad history. You’ve had dealings with Superintendent McNab in the past …’ ‘Willie McNab? You know I have. ’ ‘Aye … very funny. ’ ‘Why? ’ ‘Police Constable Charles Gourlay, that’s what. The young policeman who was shot and killed by the Empire Exhibition robbers. ’ ‘The word biblical comes to mind,’ I said. ’ ‘Exactly. Well Gourlay wasn’t just any bobby on the beat. This was Nineteen thirty-eight and Willie McNab was a young PC himself. Gourlay was a friend. A drinking buddy at the Masonic Lodge and Orange Hall and Christ knows where else.
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