I may put a man to hang about this Mr.Medler's business all day and every day for a month at a stretch, and he may miss his customer at the last, especially as you can't give me any kind of description of the man you want." "Surely your agent could get some information out of Medler's clerk; it's in his trade to do that kind of thing, isn't it ?" "Well, yes, sir; I don't deny that I might put a man on to the clerk, and it might answer.

On the other hand, such a gentleman's clerk would be likely to be uncommon well trained and uncommon little trusted." "But we want to know so little," Gilbert exclaimed impatiently; "only where this man lives, and who lives with him." "Yes," murmured Mr.Proul, rubbing his chin thoughtfully; "it ain't much, as you say, and it might be got out of the clerk, if the clerk knows it; but as to Mrs.Holbrook having got away from Hampshire and come to London, that's more than I can believe.

I worked that business harder and closer than ever I worked any business yet.

You told me to spare neither money nor time, and I didn't spare either; though it was more a question of time than money, for my expenses were light enough, as you know.

I don't believe Mrs.Holbrook could have got away from Malsham station up to the time when I left Hampshire.