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Usage examples of lomas.

When he was called to a final conference between Lomas and Waler, the prosecuting counsel, he came late with a dreamy and bewildered countenance.

And Lomas read: In the little fishing village of Beton on the Devonshire coast an exhumation was made yesterday by order of the Home Office.

Reggie came down to a room in the hospital, where, under the cold and curious eyes of Lomas, Cleeve stood waiting with the face of a man in torment.

Lomas was persuaded, Lomas was collecting his forces and giving his orders, and in the middle of it the telephone rang again.

Reggie watched their scurry down the platform, while Lomas stretched himself awake.

He looked vaguely about the room, from the puzzled frown of Lomas to Cleeve's scowl, to the wide - eyed horror of Lady Cleeve.

But he points out to Lomas that the police, like the undertaker, do nothing until the only thing to be done is clearing up the remains with pomp and circumstance: a procedure fundamentally irrational.

He got into a dressing - gown and reconnoitred from an upper window and saw the slim shape of Lomas accompanied by men of comforting solidity.

He took Lomas and Bell to the telephone in the keeper's room and turned the pages of the directory.

Not till Lomas was going, last of the guests, did he have a word with Reggie alone.

The Cornish express roared through, the slip carriage from it slid to the platform and Lomas jumped out.

He went plaintively and found Lomas drinking Russian tea and was embittered.

When Lomas suggested that it would assist in the detection of the real murderer to publish nothing of the failure of the case against Charles till the appeal was heard, they readily promised silence.

He lit it and sank again into the easiest chair and surveyed Lomas with a benign smile.

After which came a morning when Lomas, departing to lunch, was intercepted by Bell with a typed report of a telephone message.