The Further Adventures of Solar Pons

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"You are up early this morning, Parker?"

"Indeed, Pons. In fact I have been up all night on a difficult case and have only just come in."

"Ah, that accounts for the mud on your boots for it has only started raining within the last half-hour."

Solar Pons was in genial mood as he faced me in the sitting-room of our cosy quarters at 7B Praed Street, despite the rawness of the morning and the earliness of the hour. He waved me into a chair in front of the fire which Mrs Johnson had already lit.

"You look all in, my dear fellow. Breakfast will be ready shortly."

"I shall do justice to it, Pons," I said. "You have something afoot, if I am not mistaken?"

"The conclusion of a small affair, Parker. The addition of a full-stop to a sentence as it were. I expect one call from Bancroft and if it gives me the news for which I have been waiting — that Karl Voss has been arrested in Holland — then I shall be satisfied."

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