His recent conduct is something more than suspicious--no one can deny that he left my clerk there to drown, without possibility of help! That's intended murder! And so I ask, What do you, his solicitor, know of him--his character, his doings during the thirty years he was away?
And you answer--nothing!" "Just so!" assented Mr.Portlethorpe.

"And nobody does hereabouts.

Except that he is Sir Gilbert Carstairs, nobody in these parts knows anything about him--how should they?
We, I suppose, know more than anybody--and we know just a few bare facts." "I think you'll have to let me know what these bare facts are," remarked Mr.Lindsey.

"And Moneylaws, too.

Moneylaws has a definite charge to bring against this man--and he'll bring it, if I've anything to do with it! He shall press it!--if he can find Carstairs.