In supposing that the person or persons whom he had heard climbing up the fire-escape were in pursuit of himself, George Finch had made a pardonable error. Various circumstances had combined to render his departure from the Purple Chicken unobserved.
In the first place, just as Officer Garroway was on the point of releasing his head from the folds of the table-cloth, Giuseppe, with a loyalty to his employers which it would be difficult to over-praise, hit him in the eye with a coffee-pot. This had once more confused the policeman's outlook, and by the time he was able to think clearly again the lights went out.
(from The Small Bachelor, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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