“This is my friend,” Mortimer Lightwood interposed; “ Mr. Eugene Wrayburn.”

“ Mr. Eugene Wrayburn, is it? And what might Mr. Eugene Wrayburn have asked of me?”

“I asked you, simply, if you found all these yourself?”

“I answer you, simply, most on ’em.”

“Do you suppose there has been much violence and robbery, beforehand, among these cases?”

“I don’t suppose at all about it,” returned Gaffer. “I ain’t one of the supposing sort. If you’d got your living to haul out of the river every day of your life, you mightn’t be much given to supposing. Am I to show the way?”