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'They ought to have had a detective down from London, remarked Lady Palliser, ignoring both the scene and the date of the story. Her reading had lain much among novels in which the private detective was omnipotent, the unraveller of all mysteries, the avenger of every wrong.

She's a different person each time; and each time, hang it all, I lose my heart afresh to that different person." I glanced round to make sure Amelia was well out of earshot. "No, Sey," my respected connection went on, after another long pause, sipping his coffee pensively, "I feel I must be aided in this superhuman task by a professional unraveller of cunning disguises.

"There came in the professional detective, Monsieur, who proves himself an unraveller of mysteries, by annihilating the very proofs he had accumulated. He's a very cunning man, and a similar trick had often enabled him to turn suspicion from himself. He proved the innocence of one before accusing the other.

General Gordon would be useful in Egypt; Sir Evelyn Baring had replied that the Egyptian Government was averse to this proposal, and the matter had dropped. There was no further reference to Gordon in the official dispatches until after his return to England. Nor, before that date, was any allusion made to him as a possible unraveller of the Sudan difficulty, in the Press.

"I assure Lady Frances," observed her father, rising from the table at the same time, and laying a particular emphasis on the word lady, as if he would reprove Colonel Jones's plainness "I assure Lady Frances that I am a most excellent unraveller of mysteries, of all mysteries," he repeated with a stress on the word ALL, that made the blood rush into his daughter's cheek.

She looked round with the triumphant smile of a successful unraveller of mystery. "How about Le Five O'Clock?" interposed Sir Lulworth. "It would fit either of them equally well," said Odo; "can you remember any details about the jockey's colours? That might help us." "I seem to remember a glimpse of lemon sleeves or cap, but I can't be sure," said Lola, after due reflection.

Rouletabille had a great admiration for the celebrated detective. I had never before seen him, but I knew him well by reputation. At that time, before Rouletabille had given proof of his unique talent, Larsan was reputed as the most skilful unraveller of the most mysterious and complicated crimes.

But they had helped her, and for that he was glad. When she had gone, he sat down on the edge of his narrow bed and dropped his face in the cup of his hands. How hopeless it seemed. What chance had he of a future now with Cleek against him? Cleek the unraveller of a thousand riddles that had puzzled the cleverest brains in the universe!

And then woman’s lot, as respects hersocial promotionin matrimony, so much sought, and so necessary for her to seek, even in spite of her conscience, and at the expense of her happinessthe unravelling of that lot would also come very natural to this expert unraveller.

At the Bar cafe, where the reporters assembled before going to any of the courts, or to the Prefecture, in search of their news of crime, he began to win a reputation as an unraveller of intricate and obscure affairs which found its way to the office of the Chief of the Surete.