Likewise could swear to clothes.

And then, you see, you had the papers, too.

How was it he had totally disappeared on leaving ship, 'till found in river?
Well! Probably had been upon some little game.

Probably thought it a harmless game, wasn't up to things, and it turned out a fatal game.

Inquest to-morrow, and no doubt open verdict.
'It appears to have knocked your friend over--knocked him completely off his legs,' Mr Inspector remarked, when he had finished his summing up.
'It has given him a bad turn to be sure!' This was said in a very low voice, and with a searching look (not the first he had cast) at the stranger.
Mr Lightwood explained that it was no friend of his.
'Indeed ?' said Mr Inspector, with an attentive ear; 'where did you pick him up ?' Mr Lightwood explained further.
Mr Inspector had delivered his summing up, and had added these words, with his elbows leaning on his desk, and the fingers and thumb of his right hand, fitting themselves to the fingers and thumb of his left.
Mr Inspector moved nothing but his eyes, as he now added, raising his voice: 'Turned you faint, sir! Seems you're not accustomed to this kind of work ?' The stranger, who was leaning against the chimneypiece with drooping head, looked round and answered, 'No.