He had arrived at the
conclusion that the neighborhood was sown so thickly with detectives
that one could not throw a stone without hitting one. Yet Sin Sin Wa
had quietly left his abode and had disappeared from official ken.
Three times within the past ten minutes the spaniel had tried to bite
Kerry, nor was Kerry blind to the amusement which his burden had
occasioned among the men of K Division whom he had met on his travels.
Finally, as he came out into the riverside lane, the ill-tempered
little animal essayed a fourth, and successful, attempt, burying his
wicked white teeth in the Chief Inspector's wrist.
Kerry hooked his finger into the dog's collar, swung the yapping
animal above his head, and hurled it from him into the gloom and rain
mist.
"Hell take the blasted thing!" he shouted. "I'm done with it!"
He tenderly sucked his wounded wrist, and picking up his cane, which
he had dropped, he looked about him and swore savagely. Of Seton Pasha
he had had news several times during the day, and he was aware that
the Home office agent was not idle. But to that old rivalry which had
leapt up anew when he had seen Seton near Kennington oval had
succeeded a sort of despair; so that now he would have welcomed the
information that Seton had triumphed where he had failed.
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