I was really holding them without due legal warrant, but I am forced to do that, sometimes.

They complained of lack of exercise, so I gave them exercise in the manner which you saw the other morning, Mr.Cleggett.
"One of my agents, shortly after this, picked up the trail of Reginald Maltravers again.

When I learned that he was alive my first impulse was to release Dopey Eddie and Izzy the Cat.

But I learned that the two gunmen could, if they would, give me a tip as to certain of the activities of Logan Black, against whom I have been collecting evidence for nearly a year.

So I kept them on my boat.
"Reginald Maltravers, most of the time that you were riding about the country, Lady Agatha, with the box that you thought contained him, was really following you.