clothes man. I have only to say one word and he will clap the darbies on you and lead you away to durance vile. And that's what I'll do, s'welp me, if you don't turn this business up. If I believed that you really have that manuscript locked up here, I'd have had you arrested already. But it's my idea that you're trying to bluff us. Don't push the bluff too far, that's all."
Sir William Keyne came bustling forward, a thing he could always be trusted to do. "Now, my dear Archdeacon," he said, "we're all present and ready to hear what you have to say. So this is your son-in-law, Mr. Dunkle, is it? Permit me to introduce myself, Mr. Dunkle. I am Sir William Keyne, the novelist. It gives me very great pleasure to meet you, Mr. Dunkle, though I don't happen to have read either of your books. You see, as a
