"Should I not be able to come, you will of course understand that my presence is required in London or elsewhere.

My movements must of necessity be regulated by those of Mr.Hayle, and while I am attending to him I am not my own master." Kitwater asked me one or two more questions about the disposal of the gems to the merchants in Hatton Garden, groaned as I describe the enthusiasm of the dealers, swore under his breath when he heard of Hayle's cunning in refusing to allow either his name or address to be known, and then rose and bade me good-bye.
During dinner that evening I had plenty to think about.

The various events of the day had been so absorbing, and had followed so thick and fast upon each other, that I had little time to seriously digest them.
As I ate my meal, and drank my modest pint of claret, I gave them my fullest consideration.

As Kitwater had observed, there was no time to waste if we desired to lay our hands upon that slippery Mr.Hayle.

Given the full machinery of the law, and its boundless resources to stop him, it is by no means an easy thing for a criminal to fly the country unobserved; but with me the case was different.