He could lie to the detective, but he could not bring himself to shake hands on it.
On the way down the plank Haggerty mused: "An' I thought I had a hunch!" Thomas sighed.

"Play your game above board; it pays." Into what a labyrinth of lies he was wayfaring! That same night, on the other side of the Atlantic, the ninth Baron of Dimbledon sailed for America to rehabilitate his fortunes.

He did and he didn't..