CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENAfter Bull left John Field, he made his way across Holborn and down Chancery Llane to the Kardomah Coffee Shop. He hardly realised that it was after three o’clock until he settled himself, ordered a light lunch, and picked up an afternoon edition of the Standard. He glanced through it and picked up a morning paper that was on the bench. His eye struck a column that annoyed him more than he had been annoyed for months.
“The most vigorous and sustained man hunt ever to take place in the Metropolitan police area,” it said, “has gone on since the brutal robbery and murder of Mr. George Colton, St. Giles-street (Bond-street) jeweller, on the Colnbrook Road at 9.25 o’clock Wednesday evening, February 25th.
“Last night Mr. Colton’s chauffeur, Oliver Peskett, was shot to deat
