So! Now he looks a little more human.

What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring with frightened eyes at his accuser.
"I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me.
Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case complete.

You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the Countess of Morcar's ?" "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a crackling voice.
"I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid.

Well, the temptation of sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous in the means you used.

It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the making of a very pretty villain in you.