Therefore directly the character of this affair suggested itself to me, I thought it should be dealt with with special secrecy, and ventured to come over here." "That's right," approved the great Personage, glancing down complacently over his double chin.

"I am glad there's somebody over at your shop who thinks that the Secretary of State may be trusted now and then." The Assistant Commissioner had an amused smile.
"I was really thinking that it might be better at this stage for Heat to be replaced by--" "What! Heat?
An ass--eh ?" exclaimed the great man, with distinct animosity.
"Not at all.

Pray, Sir Ethelred, don't put that unjust interpretation on my remarks." "Then what?
Too clever by half ?" "Neither--at least not as a rule.

All the grounds of my surmises I have from him.

The only thing I've discovered by myself is that he has been making use of that man privately.