But all these matters are very simple--when you get to the bottom of them.

The police think this is going to be a very simple affair--mere vulgar murder for the sake of mere vulgar robbery.

We shall see!" Then Sir Gilbert went away, and Mr.Lindsey looked at me, who stood a little apart, and he saw that I was thinking.
"Well, my lad," he said; "a bit dazed by your new opening?
It's a fine chance for you, too! Now, I suppose, you'll be wanting to get married.

Is it that you're thinking about ?" "Well, I was not, Mr.Lindsey," said I."I was just wondering--if you must know--how it was that, as he was here, you didn't tell Sir Gilbert about that signature of his brother's that you found on Gilverthwaite's will." He shared a sharp look between me and the door--but the door was safely shut.
"No!" he said.

"Neither to him nor to anybody, yet a while! And don't you mention that, my lad.