'I assure you we should count this little contretemps a trifle at the office; it's the sort of thing that may occur to any one; and if you're perfectly sure you had no hand in it--' 'What language am I to find--' began Pitman.
'O, I'll do that part of it,' interrupted Michael, 'you have no experience.' But the point is this: If--or rather since--you know nothing of the crime, since the--the party in the closet--is neither your father, nor your brother, nor your creditor, nor your mother-in-law, nor what they call an injured husband--' 'O, my dear sir!' interjected Pitman, horrified.
'Since, in short,' continued the lawyer, 'you had no possible interest in the crime, we have a perfectly free field before us and a safe game to play.

Indeed, the problem is really entertaining; it is one I have long contemplated in the light of an A.B.

case; here it is at last under my hand in specie; and I mean to pull you through.

Do you hear that ?--I mean to pull you through.

Let me see: it's a long time since I have had what I call a genuine holiday; I'll send an excuse tomorrow to the office.