"Some time ago, or lately ?" "If you want to know," retorted Cotherstone, "it was the very day after old Kitely was killed.

I sent it through a friend of mine who still lives in Wilchester.

I wanted to be done with it--I didn't want to have it brought up against me that anybody lost aught through my fault.

And so--I paid." "But--I'm only suggesting--you could have paid a long time before that, couldn't you ?" said Tallington.

"The longer you waited, the more you had to pay.