The connection between a line and a rope should be obvious even to a judge....

As a pipe-opener, have a drink!" Robinson had removed his helmet, and was flourishing a red handkerchief, not without cause, the day being really very hot.
"Not for a few minutes, thank you, sir," said the policeman.

"May I ask Bates for a sack and a cord ?" He went to the kitchen.

Hart was "tickled to death," he vowed.
"We are about to witness the reconstruction of the crime, a procedure which the French delight in, and the intellect of France is a hundred years ahead of our effete civilization," he chortled.
Grant was not so pleased.

The memory of a distressing vision was beginning to blur, and this ponderous policeman must come and revive it.
Yet, even he grew interested when Robinson illustrated a nebulous idea by knotting a clothesline around a sack stuffed with straw, having brought Bates to bear him out in the matter of accuracy.
"There you are, gentlemen!" he said, puffing after the slight exertion.
"That's the way of it.