You don't think I've made a mistake now ?" West shook his head and looked distressed, but said nothing.
"Of course he'll never come back to us, and he knows it, or he'd never put on this defiant manner.

Hark at him!" For at that moment the object of their thoughts shouted loudly: "Here, you two spies, what are you waiting behind for?
Come in and help search the place." West frowned and hung back, but Ingleborough laid a hand on his shoulder.
"Come along," he said; "you must help me to see it through! It isn't pleasant, but it's part of one's duty." The next minute they were in Anson's combined bed and sitting room, a very ordinary-looking place, with the simplest of furniture and plenty of suggestions all round of spots where an ingenious man might have hidden a little fortune in diamonds; for the mud walls were lined with matchboard, the ceiling was of the same material, and then there was the floor, where in any part a board could have been lifted and a receptacle made for the precious crystals, without counting the articles of furniture, including the bedding.
"I'm sorry I have no more chairs, gentlemen," said the tenant banteringly.

"Sit on the table, and three of you can make a sofa of the bed.

Never mind tumbling it! You'll do nothing compared to Mr Superintendent Norton when he begins.

I say, though, you should have given me notice of all this, and then I'd have had a carpenter here to skin the walls and ceiling so as to have made everything nice and easy for you.