If you will call here at four o'clock to-morrow afternoon, I shall be able to give you a definite answer." "I suppose we must be content with that," said Kitwater lugubriously.
They thereupon thanked me and rose to go.
"By the way," I said, "does this man Hayle know that you are in England ?" The blind man shook his head.
"He thinks we are lying dead in the jungle," he said, "and it is not his fault that we are not.

Did he suspect for a moment that we were alive and in the same country as himself, he'd be out of it like a rat driven by a ferret from his hole.

But if you will give us your assistance, sir, we will make him aware of our presence before very long." Though he tried to speak unconcernedly, there was an expression upon the man's face that startled me.

I felt that, blind though he was, I should not care to be in Mr.Hayle's place when they should meet.
After they had left me I lit a cigar and began to think the matter over.
I had had a number of strange cases presented to me in my time, but never one that had opened in such a fashion as this.

A man robs his friends in the centre of China; the latter are tortured and maimed for life, and come to me in London to seek out their betrayer for them, in whatever part of the globe he might be.