It is therefore next to an impossibility that Horatio Paget can have any idea of the business I am engaged in.

He is the very man of all others to try and supersede me if he had an inkling of my plans; but I am convinced he can have no such inkling.
And yet the advertisement of the Haygarth property in the _Times_ was as open to the notice of all the world as it was open to the notice of George Sheldon.

What if my patron should have been struck by the same advertisement, and should have come to Ullerton on the same business?
It is possible, but it is not likely.

When I left town the Captain was engaged in Philip Sheldon's affairs.

He has no doubt come to Ullerton on Philip Sheldon's business.