"Had he committed any crime?" I asked.
"None was charged against him," said Mr. Bucket, coolly lifting off his hat, "but I suppose he wasn't over-particular. No. What I wanted him for was in connexion with keeping this very matter of Lady Dedlock quiet. He had been making his tongue more free than welcome as to a small accidental service he had been paid for by the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn; and it wouldn't do, at any sort of price, to have him playing those games. So having warned him out of London, I made an afternoon of it to warn him to keep out of it now he WAS away, and go farther from it, and maintain a bright look-out that I didn't catch him coming back again."
"Poor creature!" said I.

"Had he committed any crime?" I asked.
"None was charged against him," said Mr. Bucket. "What I wanted him for was in connexion with keeping this matter of Lady Dedlock quiet. He had been making his tongue more free than welcome; and it wouldn't do to have him playing those games. So having warned him out of London, I made an afternoon of it to warn him to keep out of it."
"Poor creature!" said I.
