Piccadilly, 12:30 o'clock.—Just before we reached Fenchurch
Street Lord Godalming said to me, "Quincey and I will find a
locksmith. You had better not come with us in case there should be
any difficulty. For under the circumstances it wouldn't seem so bad
for us to break into an empty house. But you are a solicitor and
the Incorporated Law Society might tell you that you should have
known better."
I demurred as to my not sharing any danger even of odium, but he
went on, "Besides, it will attract less attention if there are not
too many of us. My title will make it all right with the locksmith,
and with any policeman that may come along. You had better go with
Jack and the Professor and stay in the Green Park. Somewhere in
sight of the house, and when you see the door opened and
