For I don't mind confessing that I had made up my mind to help Kitwater and Codd in their search for the villain Hayle.

The Trust Company would have to look elsewhere for assistance.

And yet, as I had the best of reasons for knowing, that piece of business was likely to prove twice as remunerative as this search for the traitorous friend.

Happily, however money is not everything in this world.
During the remainder of the day I found myself looking forward with a feeling that was almost akin to eagerness, to the interview I was to have with Kitwater and Codd that afternoon.

If the two gentlemen had faults, unpunctuality was certainly not one of them, for the clock upon the mantelpiece had scarcely finished striking the hour of four, when I heard footsteps in the office outside, and next moment they were shown into my own sanctum.