And I was not going to have anything to do with it.
I went home to my bed resolved on that.

I had heard of blackmailing, and had a good notion of its wickedness--and of its danger--and I was not taking shares with Crone in any venture of that sort.

But there Crone was, an actual, concrete fact that I had got to deal with, and to come to some terms with, simply because he knew that I was in possession of knowledge which, to be sure, I ought to have communicated to the police at once.

And I was awake much during the night, thinking matters over, and by the time I rose in the morning I had come to a decision.

I would see Crone at once, and give him a sort of an ultimatum.