Would you two gentlemen object to making a pretence of taking a glass of something in my company at the Fellowships?
Well-conducted house, and highly respectable landlady.' They replied that they would be happy to substitute a reality for the pretence, which, in the main, appeared to be as one with Mr Inspector's meaning.
'Very good,' said he, taking his hat from its peg, and putting a pair of handcuffs in his pocket as if they were his gloves.

'Reserve!' Reserve saluted.

'You know where to find me ?' Reserve again saluted.

'Riderhood, when you have found out concerning his coming home, come round to the window of Cosy, tap twice at it, and wait for me.

Now, gentlemen.' As the three went out together, and Riderhood slouched off from under the trembling lamp his separate way, Lightwood asked the officer what he thought of this?
Mr Inspector replied, with due generality and reticence, that it was always more likely that a man had done a bad thing than that he hadn't.
That he himself had several times 'reckoned up' Gaffer, but had never been able to bring him to a satisfactory criminal total.