CHAPTER XII
Official ViewIn the middle of the afternoon on the same day, Deputy Commander Sydney of the Special Branch sat at his desk, with his signed photograph of H. M. The Queen over it, and concentrated on keeping the interview as smooth as silk.
As a member of the Other Service, as he called Security, he did not expect much trouble from Mr. Campion, or help either, if the truth were faced. Mercifully his good lady looked as if she were sensible and well brought up. However, he did feel that Superintendent Charles Luke, C.I.D., who had just been wished upon him to help with the inquiry and who now sat at the second desk looking like some great black tom jaguar, filled the office to bursting point.
Sydney was as big a man as Luke, and his face had some of the quality of polished sto
