'This venal doctor seems quite a desideratum,' he reflected. 'I want him
first to give me a certificate that my uncle is dead, so that I may get
the leather business; and then that he's alive--but here we are again at
the incompatible interests!' And he returned to his tabulation:

Bad. ---- Good.

4. I have almost no money.

4. But there is plenty in the bank.


5. Yes, but I can't get the money in the bank.

5. But--well, that seems unhappily to be the case.


6. I have left the bill for eight hundred pounds in Uncle
Joseph's pocket.

6. But if Pitman is only a dishonest man, the presence of this
bill may lead him to keep the whole thing dark and throw the body
into the New Cut.


7. Yes, but if Pitman is dishonest and finds the bill, he will
know who Joseph is, and he may blackmail me.

7. Yes, but if I am right about Uncle Masterman, I can blackmail
Michael.