Time enough to tell him that when it comes to making out the cheque," said Cleek, as the superintendent remarked upon the circumstance.

Then he pushed back his chair and walked over to the window, and stood looking silently out upon the flowing river.
Narkom did not disturb his reflections.

He knew from past experience, as well as from the manner in which he took his lower lip between his teeth and drummed with his finger-tips upon the window-ledge, that some idea relative to the working out of the case had taken shape within his mind, and so, with the utmost discretion, went on with his tea and refrained from speaking.

Suddenly Cleek turned.

"Mr.Narkom, do me a favour, will you?
Look me up a copy of Holman's 'Diseases of the Kidneys' when you go back to town.