Look in that room there, Armstrong.

That's the billiard-room in which he spent most of his time, and that's the very table on which he let himself be beaten regularly for the good of the house." The tutor walked across to the folding-doors and surveyed the dingy room with critical interest.
"And that must have been little more than twelve years ago," said he.
"Do you still hold to your theory that Ratman is your brother ?" "I have no theory.

I must find my brother, even if he is a--a murderer," said the boy with a groan.

"But, I say, has nothing been heard of him ?" "The police have traced him to London; there the scent ends for the present.

He is probably in hiding there, and one may have to wait weeks or months till he gets off his guard and is caught." About ten days later they started, by slow stages, on the homeward journey.