Hazel gave a graphic description of the handsome young woman who had so cleverly wheedled the documents from him, and who paid him the exact sum agreed upon in the exact way that it was to have been paid.

Alder had not seen you, and has not the slightest idea how the important news slipped through his fingers; but when he told me what had happened, I knew at once you were the goddess of the machine, therefore I have been waiting for you.

May I be permitted to express the opinion that you didn't play your cards at all well, Miss Baxter ?" "No?
I think I played my cards very much better than you played yours, you know." "Oh, I am not instituting any comparison, and am not at all setting myself up as a model of strategy.

I admit that, having the right cards in my hands, I played them exceedingly badly; but then, you understand, I thought I was sure of an exclusive bit of news." "No news is exclusive, Mr.Hardwick, until it is printed, and out in the streets, and the other papers haven't got it." "That is very true, and has all the conciseness of an adage.

I would like to ask, Miss Baxter, how much the _Graphite_ paid you for that article over and above the fifty pounds you gave to Hazel ?" "Oh! it wasn't a question of money with me; the subject hasn't even been discussed.