"He might give my neck a twist some dark night if he heard on't.

He's the blackest sheep we've got in Calne, sir." "I suppose you mean Pike," said the station-master.

"He has the character for being that, I believe.

I've seen no harm in the man myself." "Well, it was Pike," said the porter.

"That is, some of us suspected him.
And that's how Mr.George Elster came by his death.