'Just what he wants to steady him.' 'But, my dear sit, he might be involved in a charge of--a charge of murder,' gulped the artist.
'Well, he'll be just where we are,' returned the lawyer.

'He's innocent, you see.

What hangs people, my dear Pitman, is the unfortunate circumstance of guilt.' 'But indeed, indeed,' pleaded Pitman, 'the whole scheme appears to me so wild.

Would it not be safer, after all, just to send for the police ?' 'And make a scandal ?' enquired Michael.

'"The Chelsea Mystery; alleged innocence of Pitman"?
How would that do at the Seminary ?' 'It would imply my discharge,' admitted the drawing--master.