"Now, then, pay attention, and I'll tell you all about it, and what I've done since I got your note yesterday morning." He told Allerdyke the whole story of his endeavour to find out something about Rayner merely because Rayner seemed to be in Miss Slade's confidence, and because Miss Slade was certainly a woman of mystery.

And Allerdyke listened as quietly and attentively as Appleyard had listened to him, nodding his head at all the important points, and in the end he slapped his manager's shoulder with an approving hand.
"Good--good!" he said.

"Good, Ambler! That was a bit of right work, and hang me if I don't believe we shall find something out.

But what's to be done?
You know, if these two are in at it, they may slip.

That 'ud never do!" "I don't think there's any fear of that--yet," answered Appleyard.