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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: strange if I don't succeed.'
Well and good. But how to lay hands upon Bent Pitman, except by
advertisement, was not so clear. And even so, in what terms to
ask a meeting? on what grounds? and where? Not at John Street,
for it would never do to let a man like Bent Pitman know your
real address; nor yet at Pitman's house, some dreadful place in
Holloway, with a trapdoor in the back kitchen; a house which you
might enter in a light summer overcoat and varnished boots, to
come forth again piecemeal in a market-basket. That was the
drawback of a really efficient accomplice, Morris felt, not
without a shudder. 'I never dreamed I should come to actually
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