George A. Birmingham

“ Dick wailed again, and was again suppressed, this time very rapidly, by Miss Farquharson.
"There remains," said Miss Blow, "the case of Dr. O'Grady; but before I go into that I have to inform you that there is another man missing."
"My goodness! " said Lord Manton. "The thing is becoming a perfect epidemic. Who is it now?"
"Jimmy O'Loughlin, I hope and trust," said Mr. Goddard. "He's been dragged into this business by everybody that has said anything. It's always Jimmy O'Loughlin told me this or Jimmy O'Loughlin told me that. If he's gone off himself now it serves him jolly well right." ”

“ Red or anybody else, but to get Miss Blow out of his house.
"Do go and arrest the man Red, Goddard," he said again.
"I can't," said Mr. Goddard. "How can I possibly go and arrest a man without a single scrap of evidence against him?"
"You hear what he says," said Lord Manton to Miss Blow. "He won't act without evidence. ”

“ Sanders, leaving Miss Blow to infer that the lady who shrieked was the wife of the other Member of Parliament.
"That they have deserted these ladies," said Miss Blow, accepting the correction, "because they wear red dressing-gowns, and——"
"But I don't," wailed Mrs. Dick; "I've never had a red dressing-gown. Richard always liked me in blue. He couldn't bear red. ”