Chapter Forty-Two
Paddington Station – Get in! – Gladys makes a deduction – Caxton, discovered
Through the window of her train compartment, Gladys saw London bathed in the bloody light of sunset. Was this what the world would look like burning?
“Paddington Station again,” she said. “You know, of all the things I saw when I moved here from Sydney, that station shocked me the most. Our main station is a tin shed in Redfern. Maybe one day they’ll get around to building one of these big stone jobs with all the columns.”
“Do you mind that I took you away from the end of the world to solve a solved crime?” Charlie said.
“Yes,” Gladys said. “A bit. I don’t know we could have helped much. Would have been nice to be involved. Anyway, your crime isn’t solved, not completely. What was Shaughness
