"Why, he's been to my place down in 'Ammersmith, asking questions about me.
My landlady swears he didn't go into my room, but who can tell whether he did or not?
Those sort of chaps can get in anywhere.
Then I went out for a bit of an airing after the one o'clock rush was over to-day, and I'm danged if he wasn't at my 'eels.

I seed him coming round by Liverpool Street just as I went in a bar to get a drop of something." Laverick frowned.
"If there is anything in this Story, Shepherd," he said, "if you are really being followed, what a thundering fool you were to come here! All the world knows that Arthur Morrison was my partner." "I couldn't help it, sir," the man declared.

"I couldn't, indeed.
I was so scared, I felt I must speak about it to some one.

And then there were these shares.

There was nowhere I could keep 'em safe." "Look here," Laverick went on, "you're alarming yourself about nothing.