I thought he only said that because he did not want to be mixed up in the case.

He asked me to leave the girl to him and he would settle with her.
"I left his house about nine o'clock at night, telling him I was going back to my lodgings.

But really I went to the block of flats in the Edgware Road where this girl Rider lived.

I knew the flat because I had been there the night before at Mr.Lyne's suggestion to plant some jewellery which had been taken from the store.

His idea was that he would pinch her for theft.