By that time, which was really less than it takes me to tell you about it, there wasn't a sound to be heard but the lapping of the river.

The last thing I heard you say, Mr.
Howard, was----" "I used language which no self-respecting chauffeur could possibly repeat," broke in Devar despairingly.
"That's as may be, sir.

Circumstances alter cases, as you will see before I've done.

Well, I listened to the river, which resembled nothing in all the world so much as the sobbing of a child, but no one stirred for such a time that I began to feel stiff, and I was thinking that I might be acting like a fool for my pains when a head popped up over the edge of the wharf." Obviously, this sentence demanded a dramatic pause, and Brodie knew his business.

Perhaps he expected cries of horror from his audience, but none was forthcoming, so, with a sigh, he continued: "That cured the stiffness, gentlemen, I can assure you.