Bookmaker's Body (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Bookmaker's BodyThe next instant, Arnold was up, he cleared the inert body in front of him with a ¿ying leap, made across the road for the other ditch, jumped it, and was over the tall fence of weathered oak enclosing a belt of woodland before the reaching hands of the other three men could so much as touch him. As he slipped between close, uprising trunks of friendly elm, ash, and oak, he heard the unmistakable whhz't! Of a bullet quite near his head, and, almost simultaneously the ¿opping sound which his now fully active brain told him must be the noise made by a silencer fitted over the muzzle of a gun. He went quickly through the wood, crouching to avoid the whipping branches, moving with really very little noise compared with the crashing uproar made by his pursuers. He had no single idea what all this could possibly be about. He did not, however, propose stopping to enquire. It must, he dimly felt, be some sort of case of mistaken identity, but those determined persons behind him did not seem the sort likely to be persuaded that any course they had adopted was a mistaken one, they did not look susceptible to any kind of persuasion save that of force.The wood formed a rough triangle bordered by two fields and by the side-road leading to his lonely cottage overlooking the deep cutting of a railway line. He knew its layout and its general relation to the meadows, woods and lanes surrounding his home.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.