Status Updates From DEATH AT DYKE'S CORNER

“”There are two sides to it, Digby.I admit I see your point of view, but Anne has put the other very well. The small trader, owning his own shop, was a monopolist, and he has underpaid his employees and exploited the necessities of the country folk who had to buy their goods at his shop or go without. Independence has often been used as a cloak to inefficiency, and unwillingness to oblige, and economic unsoundness.””

“”Macdonald, by jove! They’re looking for trouble then. He’s one of the ablest men the Commissioner’s got. A first-rate fellow. IHe had a year at Oxford, I believe, then he was in the London Scottish—D.S.O., M.C. Then he joined the police and worked his way to where he is now. One of the best products of our police system.””