"No thanky, sir," said he, "as I said afore, that sorter thing's bad enough in open court; but then we says what we are obliged. No prifate notin', thanky. P'raps you'll put that flimsy away, as it might cause futur' unpleasantry through bein' used as information again your umbel servant. I was a-goin' to say a word or two about a hupset as I had one night going to take a fellow for forgery. It warn't a very partic'lar affair, for we knowed where my gentleman could be found, and there warn't any need of a detective. I was detective that time, and only took one chap with me, as I went quietly about my job. "From information I received I knowed my customer was somewhere out Soho way, in one o' them big old houses as is all let out in lodgings, and full of Frenchies, and Hightalians, and sich. Reg'lar furren colony, you know, all the way towards Leicester-square. My customer had been a clerk in a City firm, and had been hard at work makin' hisself a fortun at bettin'. He used to work hard at it, too, allus making his book so that he'd bet on the safe side, whatever 'oss won; and I don't know what he warn't going to make out of it. "On the strength of what was a-comin', and to pay some little expenses as he used to come in for through a werry smart sort o' lady as he courted, he used to borrow money of his gov'nor, just on the quiet-like, without bothering of him when he knowed he was busy. So he used to sign his gov'nor's name for him on bits o' cheques, and get what tin he wanted from the bank; but allus meant to pay it back again when he got in his heavy amounts as he was to win at Epsom, or Ascot, S'Leger, or Newmarket. "Well, you see this sweetheart of his was jest sech another as that Miss Millwood as did for George Barnwell, and she was a regular dragon at spending money. Consequently my young friend was allus a borrowin' of his gov'nor, as I telled you jest now; and at last of all he wouldn't stand it any longer, for it was bleeding him precious heavy. Besides which, he wanted to know who was being so kind to him and savin' him so much trouble about his ortygruff, as he called it. So with a little bit o' dodgin', in which I assisted, my customer was treed; and then, watchin' his chance, he runs, and I has to find him. In fact, yer know, he was what we calls `wanted.' "But I could tell pretty well where my gentleman would be, so when I'd got my instructions I goes off to look arter him.