He turned to the other detectives. "We'll go back straight away, and you, Nixon, and Davis, if you don't mind, have this fine gentleman, Mr. Pellew, between you. If he spits again you can make him sorry for it." He laughed happily. "When you're an inspector, you know, those little privileges are denied you."
Rising was arrested at the warehouse that afternoon. He did not seem quite to take in what was happening, for he was fuddled with the quart of champagne he had imbibed and some generous sniffings of the cocaine which they had smuggled in the previous week.
The following day Royne, who had made his way to Shrewsbury, saw in a late evening newspaper that Pellew and the Japanese had been brought up before the Aldgate Police Court upon the vague charge of dealing in stolen Government pro
