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Excerpts from Dead and Gone Digby didn’t look a very prepossessing character, Thanet thought as they drew nearer. The gardener continued to lean against the wall, arms folded, watching them with a sardonic expression. He had a long lugubrious face with drooping jowls and soft pouches beneath the eyes. For one who worked out of doors his skin was surprisingly pasty, the colour of moist putty, and his wispy hair had been carefully combed across his scalp in an attempt to disguise the fact that there was little of it.Thanet longed to bark, sergeant-major fashion, ‘Stand up straight when we’re t