"That's all nonsense.

He had money about him and it perhaps turns out that there really was a man at the crack in the door--a clever brigand who to-day has got the better of our vain-glorious friend.

The shooting in the hills is more disturbing than this, to my mind.
Gentlemen, you shouldn't lose any time in running these fellows down.

It will mean trouble if it gets under way.

They're an ugly lot." "This mystery coming on top of the other is all the more difficult to understand.