Evening Mood painting

"No offence to you, sir, but if I may guess I'd say you were a cop."
　　"Right first time," saidChief-Inspector Davy. "You remember Canon Pennyfather?"
　　"Canon Pennyfather now, I don't seem to mind the name –”
　　"Elderly clergyman."
　　Michael Gorman laughed.
　　"Ah now, clergymen are as thick as peas in a podin there."
　　"This one disappeared from here."
　　"Oh, that one!" Thecommissionaire seemed slightly taken aback.
　　"Did you know him?"
　　"I wouldn't rememberhim if it hadn't been for people asking me questions abouthim. All I know is, I put him into a taxi and he went to the Athenaeum Club. That's the last I saw of him. Somebody told me he'dgone to Switzerland, but I hear he never got there. Lost himself, it seems."