Jones is a diffident and retiring, but a very manly young fellow, who loves quiet and seems to have no bad habits.

You can't connect the two in any possible way." Again Arthur took time to consider.
"I have no desire to suspect Jones unjustly," he said.

"In fact, I have been inclined to like the fellow.

And yet--his quaint stories and his foolish expenditures have made me suspicious from the first.

You have scarcely done justice to his character in your description, sir.