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The Chief Inspector replaced the receiver and stood up, revealing his great height and the fact that he wore a Harris tweed suit which his tailor might with justice have claimed to be well cut, assuming that it had been cut for a smaller customer. Firth smiled grimly, and because he had a slightly undershot jaw, when he smiled one saw his lower teeth.
"Back to the streets o' Babylon," he said. "Wi' this decrease in crime, our work is never done."
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House with the Scarlet Door
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A full moon, veiled from time to time by ragged clouds, looked down upon a crop of giant mushrooms which was really a fleet of barrage balloons floating high above a hushed and darkened London. The police officers were accustomed to these strangely silent streets; they no longer suffered memory's pangs; unmoved they passed by the sites of historic landmarks, of buildings with associations whose tendrils were wound around the heart of every Londoner, but which were marked now only by gaping chasms. The blue pencil of the Luftwaffe had erased those homely records; the red pencil of the Royal Air Force was busily balancing the account.