Welcome to Part Ten of our current Tale for Our Time - The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, a Sax Rohmer caper about murderous Mohammedans on the loose in the London of 1914.
In tonight's episode our protagonists find themselves in one of the less salubrious parts of the Waterloo Road, where dwarves are dropping from the sky:
As he passed up on to the roof and I followed him, the comparative cleanness of the air was most refreshing after the varied fumes of the staircase.
Side by side we leaned upon the parapet looking down into the dirty courtyard which was the theatre of this weird mystery; looking down upon the stage, sordidly Western, where a mystic Eastern tragedy had been enacted.
I could see the constable standing beside the crushed thing upon the stones.
"Now," said Bristol, with a sort of awe in his voice, "where did he fall from?"
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