"I was beginning to grow uneasy.

And now is there any other way in which I can serve you?
If so, I shall be only too pleased to do it." I informed him that, if I had anything else to ask him I would call upon him again, and then took my departure.

While I was in a great measure satisfied with the information I had gained, I was not altogether easy in my mind.

The question to be answered was, was the man I was after the same individual who had sold Jacob and Bulenthall the stones?
The description given me varied in several particulars to that furnished me by Kitwater.

My client declared him to possess black hair; the merchant had said grey; the one had declared that Hayle possessed a beard, the other that he had only a waxed moustache.