It is of vital importance that I should return to London to-night, but is even more vitally important that the world should say that I am in Vienna.

See what I mean ?" "No, I'm hanged if I do." "What I have just heard from London makes me shudder to think of the consequences if I go on east to-night.

I may as well tell you that there is a plot on foot to perpetrate a gigantic fraud against the people.

The County Council is to be hoodwinked out and out into moving forward certain building projects, involving millions of the people's money.

Our firm has opposed a certain band of grafters, and when I left England it was pretty well settled that we had blocked their game.