CHAPTER EIGHT1
It was Bord who went up to the encampment on Bowland. The acting chief constable (deputising during the illness of his superior officer) was a stickler for regulations.
“We can’t co-opt a senior officer from the Yard without going through the regular drill,” said the acting C.C., speaking to Bord after the latter’s melancholy interview with Mrs. Borwick. “By tomorrow morning the formalities will be settled, Bord, and I agree it would be a sound idea if the superintendent went to Leverstone. But somebody should go up to the encampment immediately and have the gangers paraded, Bord, and I think you should go, taking with you somebody who can identify this Sam Borwick, because he’s the chap we want, make no mistake about it.”
So eventually Mr. Staple got into Bord’s car and
