You've some other business, you and these lodgekeepers, and in my opinion it's not a very creditable one." "What d'ye mean ?" asked Dobson sharply.
"Just what I say.

You must expect a body to be suspicious, if you treat him as you're treating me." Loudon must have told this man the story with which he had been fobbed off about the half-witted Kennedy relative.

Would Dobson refer to that?
The innkeeper had an ugly look on his face, but he controlled his temper with an effort.
"There's no cause for suspicion," he said.

"As far as I'm concerned it's all honest and above-board." "It doesn't look like it.

It looks as if you were hiding something up in the House which you don't want me to see." Dobson jumped from his chair, his face pale with anger.