"But I hope to goodness you'll remember it quickly.

It may be of the greatest use to me." "Ah, yes; I must," said Mr.Manley, giving him a queer look.
"I was forgetting," said Mr.Flexen, understanding the thought behind the queer look.

"You'd hardly believe it, Mr.Carrington, but Mr.Manley told me at the very beginning of this business that he was not going to help in any way to discover the murderer of Lord Loudwater, because he considered that murderer a benefactor of society." "But I never heard of such a thing!" cried the lawyer in a tone of astonished disapproval.

"Such a course might be possible in the case of some minor crime, or in a person intimately connected with the criminal in the case of a major crime.

But for an outsider to pursue such a course in the case of a murder is unheard of--absolutely unheard of." "I daresay it isn't common," said Mr.Manley in a tone of modest satisfaction.