Now let's see the landlord and see what he's got to offer us in the way of rooms.

We don't want any dinner, because we had it on board the steamer." Hayle accompanied them into the bar, and was a witness of the satisfaction the landlord endeavoured, from business motives, to conceal.

In due course he followed them to the small, stifling rooms in the yard at the back, and observed that they were placed on either side of himself.

He had already taken the precaution of rapping upon the walls in order to discover their thickness, and to find out whether the sound of chinking money was to be heard through them.
"I must remember that thirty-seven and sixpence and two Mexican dollars are all I have in the world," he said to himself.

"It would be bad business to allow them to suppose that I had more, until I find out what they want." "The last time I was here was with Stellman," said the taller of the men, when they met again in the courtyard.