You expected that, didn't you?
Probably this inventory has been found.

I don't suppose it will help any." "How should it ?" "Very true; how should it! No thoroughfare there, of course." "No thoroughfare anywhere to-day," I exclaimed.

"To-morrow some loop-hole of escape may suggest itself to me.

I should like to sleep on the matter.
I--I should like to sleep on it." He saw that I had something in mind of which I had thus far given him no intimation, and he waited anxiously for me to reconsider my last words before he earnestly remarked: "A day lost at a time like this is often a day never retrieved.

Think well before you bid me leave you, unenlightened as to the direction in which you wish me to work." But I was not ready, not by any means ready, and he detected this when I next spoke.
"I will see you to-morrow; any time to-morrow; meantime I will give you a commission which you are at liberty to perform yourself or to entrust to some capable detective.