He had been explaining the financial details of the matter, in which the Duc de Mersch and Callan and Mrs.Hartly and all these people clubbed together and started a paper which they hired Fox to run, which was to bring their money back again, which was to scratch their backs, which....

It was like the house that Jack built; I wondered who Jack was.

That was it, who was Jack?
It all hinged upon that.
"Why, yes," I said.

"It seems rather neat." "Of course," Fox wandered on, "you are wondering why the deuce I tell you all this.

Fact is, you'd hear it all if I didn't, and a good deal more that isn't true besides.