"And you found what you searched for, Mr. Dockwrath?"
"I did," said Dockwrath.
"Without very much delay, apparently?"
"I was two or three days over the work."
"But you found exactly what you wanted?"
"I found what I expected to find."
"And that, although all those papers had been subjected to the scrutiny of Messrs. Round and Crook at the time of that other trial twenty years ago?"
"I was sharper than them, Mr. Chaffanbrass,—a deal sharper."
"So I perceive," said Chaffanbrass, and now he had pushed back his wig a little, and his eyes had begun to glare with an ugly red light. "Yes," he said, "it will be long, I think, before my old friends Round and Crook are as sharp as you are, Mr. Dockwrath."
"Upon my word I agree with you, Mr. Chaffanbrass."