When Mr. Lewis first stepped into Arthur's office, he immediately felt the air was colder than outside.
It wasn't merely the temperature; there was a chilling atmosphere that made one feel isolated, helpless.
As a distinguished bureaucrat in the United Kingdom police system, Arthur's office was surprisingly small, much smaller than Lewis had imagined.
Yet, the small room was quite full of items; an antique ebony desk stretched across the window, its corners adorned with barely visible silver lines. Two visitor chairs wrapped in deep green leather were near the fireplace, their backs polished by time. Above the fireplace hung a copper map of London's law enforcement districts, densely lined, resembling an invisible web spun across the city.
"London Metropolitan Police Headquarters Jurisdiction" (letters in the figure represent various police district codes, such as R for Greenwich Police District) produced in 1837, currently housed in London Image Archive.
