I'd spend the summer running down this thing." "I know whom Dalzell has in mind, Hartwell," Dick rejoined.

"It's no one from within a good many miles of Preston, either.

But we have no right to make accusation without an iota of proof." "Then you decline to allow the name to be furnished ?" blurted the referee.
"I refuse, sir, for the same reason that you would," Dick answered coolly.

"Only a coward, a knave or a fool will accuse another person without some reasonable proof to offer.

No great harm has been done, anyway.