"Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Long-Term Investment" - читать интересную книгу автора (Yarbro Chelsea Quinn)

"Thank you, Inspector." He turned his back on all the activity, then reached into his waistcoat pocket
and drew out his key on a long chain. "I will go into the country for a few days, I think. To recruit myself.
This has left me quite shaken."
"More's the pity, sir," said Inspector Ames, taking the key-and-chain from the visitor. "Just you rest
up a bit. Don't let this unpleasantness spoil your taste for England." He wanted to ease Carfax's mind, so
he added, "Hire an experienced manager and let him handle the business for a while. Take your time."
"Time," Carfax echoed. "You give excellent advice, Inspector. I have other matters to attend to just
now. I would be imprudent to neglect them." He pressed his lips together, musing. "Your point is
well-taken. With a competent manager, this place should prosper, whether I am here to run it or not."
Inspector Ames smiled. "Sounds the very thing." Very probably, he thought, there was nothing more
pressing than the desire to get away from this place, but he could not blame Carfax for that, after such a
grisly discovery. He would have patted the foreigner on the arm, but that would have been much too
familiar a gesture. "What did Hitchin say you call this placeтАФa long-term investment?"
Carfax paused in the act of leaving. "That's right, Inspector," he said with an expression that was not a
smile, "so I did."