There's trouble brewing for somebody." I was surprised I had not thought of this before.

Bellairs had been behind the scenes; he had known Dickson; he knew the flight of the crew; it was hardly possible but what he should suspect; it was certain if he suspected, that he would seek to trade on the suspicion.

And sure enough, I was not yet dressed the next morning ere the lawyer was knocking at my door.

I let him in, for I was curious; and he, after some ambiguous prolegomena, roundly proposed I should go shares with him.
"Shares in what ?" I inquired.
"If you will allow me to clothe my idea in a somewhat vulgar form," said he, "I might ask you, did you go to Midway for your health ?" "I don't know that I did," I replied.
"Similarly, Mr.Dodd, you may be sure I would never have taken the present step without influential grounds," pursued the lawyer.
"Intrusion is foreign to my character.

But you and I, sir, are engaged on the same ends.