What there is to be done falls to my lot." "Had the police anything to say about it ?" Wilmore asked.
"Only a few words," Francis replied.

"Shopland has it in hand.

A good man but unimaginative.

I've come across him in one or two cases lately.
You'll find a little bit like this in the papers to-morrow: 'The murder is believed to have been committed by one of the gang of desperadoes who have infested the west-end during the last few months.' You remember the assault in the Albany Court Yard, and the sandbagging in Shepherd Market only last week ?" "That seems to let Sir Timothy out," Wilmore remarked.
"There are many motives for crime besides robbery," Francis declared.
"Don't be afraid, Andrew, that I am going to turn amateur detective and make the unravelment of this case all the more difficult for Scotland Yard.

If I interfere, it will be on a certainty.