So, whatever opinion I have formed of Simpkins, I'm going to deal with him precisely as if he were my personal enemy." "What do you mean to do to him ?" said the doctor.

"You were speaking this minute of a _post mortem_." "It won't come to that," said Meldon, "unless you boggle over the death certificate.

But the precise details of my scheme I must keep to myself for the present, merely saying that I shall be severe with him.

I couldn't, in fact, be severer if I caught him throwing stones at my infant daughter." "Is that the one the Major stood for ?" said Doyle.

"He was talking to me about her.