No time ain't been lost, on any hand.

The police have put into print already, and here's what the print says of it.' Taking up the bottle with the lamp in it, he held it near a paper on the wall, with the police heading, BODY FOUND.

The two friends read the handbill as it stuck against the wall, and Gaffer read them as he held the light.
'Only papers on the unfortunate man, I see,' said Lightwood, glancing from the description of what was found, to the finder.
'Only papers.' Here the girl arose with her work in her hand, and went out at the door.
'No money,' pursued Mortimer; 'but threepence in one of the skirt-pockets.' 'Three.

Penny.

Pieces,' said Gaffer Hexam, in as many sentences.
'The trousers pockets empty, and turned inside out.' Gaffer Hexam nodded.