>>6015258Phillip Marlowe (32NW)
We make our way past the stacked luggage in the hallway to find Phillip Marlowe in the centre of the parlour swinging a golf club, a mashie-nibilick by the look of it. He is a brisk man in his mid-forties. He informs us that he is on his way to the country estate of [Sir Clayton Partridge] and so brevity on our part would be appreciated. We ask him about his ascendancy to the presidency of the company.
"Allen and I had an understanding on that score. Upon his retirement, I would take the office. In fact, it was the key reason I joined the company three years ago."
"Mr. Allen was close to retirement, then?"
"Not by any means.. Look, I cannot deny that I have mixed feelings about Allen's untimely death. It was tragic and I feel outraged as any decent, right-thinking man would. But we were not personally close and I do relish the chance to run the company."
"Where were you on the evening of the 9th?"
"I played golf with Sir Clayton in the afternoon and went home wiht him to dine. Stayed 'til almost midnight."
The butler enters the room with a valise in one hand a shotgun in the other.
"Ready, Swinson? Well, I'm off."
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