The first time he heard that Arthur wanted to meet him, Lloyd didn't take it seriously at all.
He even specifically instructed his assistant, "If that Sir Arthur brings up plagiarism again, just tell him I won the lawsuit and everything I'm doing is perfectly legal."
In fact, Arthur really hadn't caused him any more trouble after that, until last October, when he suddenly received a strange envelope.
Inside the envelope was only a little scrap of paper torn off at random, and the sentence on it was very brief: "Mr. Lloyd, I don't like wasting time. You can choose to go on being a lucky pirate publisher, provided God still watches over you. Or you can come to No. 4 Whitehall Street to clear up our misunderstanding. I'll only wait for you until closing time."
The signature read—Member and Secretary-General of the Police Commissioner Committee of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Arthur Hastings.
