Hang him! Put him in petticoats, with long hair and a bonnet, he'd look like somebody's cook.

But if I had an establishment and he was mine, I should be afraid he'd put something unpleasant into my soup." "Never mind about old Anson," said West merrily, "but look here.

What about that illicit-diamond-buying?
Do you think that there's much of it taking place ?" "Much ?" cried his companion.

"It is tremendous.

The company's losing hundreds of thousands of pounds yearly." "Nonsense!" "It's a fact," said Ingleborough earnestly; "and no end of people are hard at work buying stolen diamonds, in spite of the constant sharp look-out kept by the police." "But I should have thought that the licences and the strict supervision would have checked the greater part of it." "Then you'd have thought wrong, my boy.