"It is a good thing to keep one's own counsel.

When you get formal notice from Mr.Hurst's solicitors that proceedings are being commenced, you may refer them to Mr.Marchmont of Gray's Inn, who will nominally act for you.

He will actually have nothing to do, but we must preserve the fiction that I am instructed by a solicitor.

Meanwhile, and until the case goes into Court, I think it very necessary that neither Mr.Jellicoe nor anyone else should know that I am to be connected with it.

We must keep the other side in the dark, if we can." "We will be as secret as the grave," said Mr.Bellingham; "and, as a matter of fact, it will be quite easy, since it happens, by a curious coincidence, that I am already acquainted with Mr.Marchmont.He acted for Stephen Blackmore, you remember, in that case that you unravelled so wonderfully.