I say, Mr Norton, you'll want a pickaxe and shovel directly, won't you ?" The directors had paid no heed to the speaker's bantering remarks, but the superintendent was getting hot, tired, and annoyed by the constant chatter of the man he was longing to arrest; and, though he had treated everything so far with calm indifference, his lack of success in his search for something incriminating in such places as experience had taught him were in favour with those who carried on diamond-smuggling began now to tell upon his temper, and he turned sharply upon the speaker: to snap out words which showed that his thoughts ran on all-fours with those of Ingleborough.
"Look here, young man!" he said; "I don't know whether you are aware of it, but you are hard at work building up a black case against yourself, and if you're not careful you'll find yourself before long working out your two years as a convict on the Cape Town breakwater." "I shall!" cried Anson.

"What for?
Where's your evidence?
You've got a jumped-up cock-and-bull story made by a fellow-clerk who says one thing while I say another.

You've only his word for it.

You've found no diamonds on me, and you've found none in my lodgings." "Not yet," said the superintendent meaningly.
"Oh, I see! Not yet! Go on, then, pray! I'm not paid by time, so I can afford to lose a few hours.

Search away! Perhaps our clever friend Ingleborough can tell you where to look.