We had best be lively,' he added significantly; 'for we must not spoil the market for the other man.' 'What do you mean ?' enquired Pitman.

'What other man?
The inspector of police ?' 'Damn the inspector of police!' remarked his companion.

'If you won't take the short cut and bury this in your back garden, we must find some one who will bury it in his.

We must place the affair, in short, in the hands of some one with fewer scruples and more resources.' 'A private detective, perhaps ?' suggested Pitman.
'There are times when you fill me with pity,' observed the lawyer.

'By the way, Pitman,' he added in another key, 'I have always regretted that you have no piano in this den of yours.