Besides, it wasn't the kind of day in which you could very well drown any one." "What brought me over here this morning," said Doyle, "was--" "I know," said Meldon.

"You want to gather in the Major's subscription to the illuminated address with the apple trees in the corners.

You shall have it.

He's signing the cheque this minute." "I'll take it, of course," said Doyle, "if it's quite convenient to the Major; but it wasn't it I came for." "What was it, then?
If you have any idea of dragging the Major into that salmon ambuscade of O'Donoghue's, I tell you plainly I won't have it." "It's nothing of the kind," said Doyle.

"After what you said on Friday we gave that notion up.