"You make a mistake there.

He left town at two o'clock yesterday." "How do you happen to know that ?" asked George sharply.
"Because I happened to be at the station and saw him take his ticket.
There's something underhand in that journey of his by the way; for Paget told me he was going to Dorking.

I suppose he and Paget have some game of their own on the cards.

I was rather annoyed by the young man's departure, as I had some work for him.

However, I can find plenty of fellows to do it as well as Hawkehurst could have done." George was looking into an open drawer in his desk while his brother said this.