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CHAPTER<br >The man s office was enormous. Inspector Ghote; at the door, stood<br >stock still unable for a moment to take a step forward so overwhelm-<br >ing was the effect.<br > Even its occupant, at whose urgent request he was there, seemed<br >shrunk into insignificance behind his huge, carved table-desk at the<br >far end. Yes, even Mr. Ranjee Shahani, the croreyati, the "magnate"<br >as the English-language newspapers called him, the head of Shahani<br >Enterprises itself, was dwarfed here.<br > But why had this man, this magnate, requested the presence of a<br >simple inspector of the Bombay C.I.D.? And so urgently? And why<br >had it been that nothing could be told him about the reason for the<br >request?<br > Ghote drew in a breath, still without setting foot on the first of<br >two vast carpets that lay between him and the crorepati s huge table-<br >desk, and the very air he sucked in seemed a different substance<br >from the damp, sullen atmosphere of end-of-monsoon Bombay out-<br >side. It was air-conditioned to a chilliness that put him in mind of<br >the snow-crowned Himalayas.<br > "Mr. Shahani? It is Inspector Ghote."<br > He wished violently that his voice had sounded less dry in the<br >back of his throat.<br > The magnate, the crorepati, there at the far end of the huge<br >room, lowered his head in slight acknowledgement.<br > ~res," he said. "It was Inspector Ghote."<br > Was? It was Inspector Ghote? Why, why "was" and not "is"?<br > "Come, Inspector."<br > Ghote plunged onto the carpet in front of him, a softly shining<br >expanse of pale, marked-at-a-touch fawn with mysteriously contorted<br >bluish dragons disporting over it, fetched at some time long past<br >from Ancient China. Dimly, as he advanced, he was aware ,f the<br ><br >
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Go West, Inspector Ghote pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024