I don't see any reason to doubt it.' 'May I keep the paper ?' 'Oh, yes.

Keene told me, by-the-by, that he gave a copy to young Waltham.' Mr.Rodman spoke whilst rolling the cigar in his mouth.

Mutimer allowed the subject to lapse.
There was no impossibility, no improbability even, in the statement made by the newspaper correspondent; yet as Richard thought it over in the night, he could not but regard it as singular that Mr.Keene should be the man to make public such a piece of information so very opportunely.
He was far from having admitted the man to his confidence, but between Keene and Rodman, as he was aware, an intimacy had sprung up.

It might be that one or the other had thought it worth while to serve him; why should Keene be particular to put a copy of the paper into Alfred Waltham's hands?
Well, he personally knew nothing of the affair.

If the news effected anything, so much the better.