This House to Let
                                            
                            By William Le Queux
                            
                                12 Mar, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        immediate neighbourhood of Cathcart Square.
Cathcart Square was an old-fashioned backwater of this highly respectable suburb. It had not been built on any regular lines. Small, narrow houses nestled comfortably by the side of what might be called ma
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                                                immediate neighbourhood of Cathcart Square.
Cathcart Square was an old-fashioned backwater of this highly respectable suburb. It had not been built on any regular lines. Small, narrow houses nestled comfortably by the side of what might be called mansions. At the entrance to the Square itself, a narrow-fronted milk-shop stood next door to a palatial residence. The dairy was very old, and the Square, with its strange agglomeration of houses, had been built round it.
Constable Brown, a tall, strapping young fellow, took his duties easily. He was quite contented with his lot, and not thirsting for promotion; he had no overweening sense of his own abilities. He was friendly with all the cooks on his beat, and from them he received very choice tit-bits. In his case, the policeman’s lot was a fairly happy one.
The morning was a very bright one, a somewhat powerful summer sun had just risen, and flooded the streets with light. Less