Now what's the trouble?
Your partner 's in jail, as I understand it.

Guilty or not guilty ?" "Wa--wait a minute!" The breeziness of the man had brought Fairchild to more wakefulness and to a certain amount of cheer.

"Who hired you ?" Then with a sudden inspiration: "Mother Howard did n't go and do this ?" "Mother Howard?
You mean the woman who runs the boarding house?
Not at all." "But--" "I 'm not exactly at liberty to state." Suspicion began to assert itself.

The smile of comradeship that the other man's manner instilled faded suddenly.
"Under those conditions, I don't believe--" "Don't say it! Don't get started along those lines.

I know what you 're thinking.