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The Professor was in such huge good humour at the success of his ruse that when we returned together to the hair-cutting establishment he was almost inclined to be genial, especially as I took the joke in good part, and frankly admitted that I had never been so "let through" before. So friendly was he, in fact that he readily agreed to my proposal that I should go over the way and bring back a bottle of something to ease his cough; and after I had pledged "Downy Tom," and expressed the intention of getting up a little earlier in the morning the next time I meant trying to steal a march upon him, and "Downy Tom" had pledged me in what -- in delicate allusion to recent events -- he humorously termed pigeon's milk, but which was in reality the best Old Tom, we fell to discussing events almost confidentially.
"So it _is_ Jeanes as yer after -- as I always suspected, though you never harsked questions about him direct, but only as if by haccident and among the others" he said, as he lit his pipe. "It 'ud have saved a lot of trouble if yer'd told me so at fust."