"How do you make that out ?" Ralph asked.
"It's clear enough, now my eyes are opened.

It was you who discovered that passage, and when you did so you said at once to yourself, now, I will get O'Connor and Desmond to go down this place, they are safe to break their necks, and then I shall get all the honor and glory of the affair.

And so it came about.

There were Desmond and I lying on the top of each other with the breath knocked clean out of our bodies, while you were doing all the fighting and getting the credit of the affair.

I appeal to all friends here if it is not a most suspicious affair." There was a chorus of agreement.