Blackstone and the Great War by Sally Spencer

Author:Sally Spencer [Spencer, Sally]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Usenet, C429, Kat, Exratorrents
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Published: 2005-01-08T23:00:00+00:00

FOURTEEN

Sergeant Winfield beamed with both pleasure and anticipation when he saw Blackstone enter the telegraphy office.

‘You’ve had a reply from that Sergeant Patterson of yours,’ he said. ‘Now there’s a man who really knows how to write a telegraph. He says more in twenty words than most people manage to say in a hundred. And damn intriguing words, they are, too.’

‘Could I see the—’ Blackstone began.

But Winfield was in full flow, and was not about to be interrupted. ‘I like to imagine what the writer looks like when I’m taking the message down,’ he said, ‘and I see your sergeant as a tall, pale, handsome man, a bit like a poet, with flowing black hair. I’m right about him, aren’t I?’

‘It’s certainly a quite remarkable description – and one I’m sure he’d be very happy with,’ Blackstone said, picturing Patterson’s expanding girth and thinning ginger hair. ‘Do you think that I could possibly see my telegraph now, Sergeant Winfield?’

‘Of course you could,’ Winfield said, reaching on to the desk and handing it to him.

The message was a short one, but very much to-the-point.

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