I'll come to that later, though." "Take your time," said Tom, dropping into a chair.

"I love to hear your innocent prattle." "Shut up! It's like this, Tom.

I met Durkin awhile ago and he got to talking about that shoe-blacking stand.

Remember the note he left here that night ?" Tom nodded.

"Well, it came out that while he was putting it under our door Eric Sawyer walked out and fell over him." "Out of here ?" "Right-o! Sawyer said he'd been waiting to see me.