The suitcase, and its contents, must be disposed of to the best possible advantage. Obviousness dictated the coast. Hence Yarmouth, since Brighton would have been ridiculous. But all that was yet to be arranged. Inspiration would arrive.
Tadema smiled, and the man who had been watching him so intently for the past ten minutes from the other side of the platform moved a little nearer.
Duds Wallace walked round Tadema, eyeing him covertly. The height was okay, he decided. So were the shoulders. And there was about the same room round the waist. But above all the style was right, and, in Duds’ opinion, style was the ticket.
With a certain department in Scotland Yard where minor criminals are regarded with complete understanding, Duds Wallace was something of a pet and a curiosity. He was u
