He proposed that if the man returned he should not be interfered with, but merely watched from the other side of the glass door.
'You want, as it were, to catch Mr Jules alive ?' said Babylon, who seemed rather taken aback at this novel method of dealing with criminals.

'Surely,' he added, 'it would be simpler and easier to inform the police of your suspicion, and to leave everything to them.' 'My dear fellow,' said Racksole, 'we have already gone much too far without the police to make it advisable for us to call them in at this somewhat advanced stage of the proceedings.

Besides, if you must know it, I have a particular desire to capture the scoundrel myself.

I will leave you and Nella here, since Nella insists on seeing everything, and I will arrange things so that once he has entered the cellar Jules will not get out of it again--at any rate through the grating.

You had better place yourselves on the other side of the glass door, in the big cellar; you will be in a position to observe from there, I will skip off at once.