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"I'm plenty veteran enough myself, and I don't need anybody's help. I'll have her inside of a we inside of a month. That I'll swear to!" Tom said carelessly: "I suppose that will answer yes, that will answer. But I reckon she is pretty old, and old people don't often outlive the cautious pace of the professional detective when he has got his clues together and is out on his still-hunt."
It is rare when in the course of a few months the true state of affairs will not have been revealed, though it may have been quite hidden at the start. This is not to say that time must be spent unprofitably in going over the same ground, or that out-of-town agencies must be badgered to reinvestigate old clues.
"Half a dozen clues," answered the police-officer, "if they're properly handled. The first thing we've got to do is to offer a reward for that silk coverlet that was taken away with the little girl." "Why offer a reward for the coverlet?" asked Captain Copplestone. "Bless your innocent heart!" answered Mr.
For the first time, he felt sure of himself, was convinced that he held a safe grasp on the case. He strode to the window and struck the sill with his fist. The tenseness went out of his body. He breathed a long sigh of relief. He had seen through the mist of puzzling facts and contradictory clues. The rest would be comparatively plain sailing.
Sire, I do not know why trickery was practiced on me, or who practiced it: why such pains were taken to mix the clues which led to the dauphin. But afterwards the same agent had orders to give you two-thirds and me only one-third of the yearly sum. I thought the court was in straits; when both Russia and Spain supported it! I was nothing but a court painter.
In June she had been in a crisis; even in November she could blush and be unnatural; now it was January and the whole affair lay forgotten. Looking back on the past six months, Margaret realised the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere.
After breakfast was over, at which meal Inspector Letstrayed ate at least three times as much as any one else, Holmes announced he was going down to Hedge-gutheridge to investigate some clues, and would not be back until noon.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, his aunt's manner had been too nonchalant to give him any clues. And from the manner of his mother he gathered merely that the asking of questions would be useless. So it came about that Keith for the first time in his life regretted the premature death of his paternal grandfather, from whom, otherwise, he might have elicited some more satisfactory information.
Salome replied in the same way that she could not imagine that he would be so foolish as to miss a man whom he had gone to meet. But the old man did not stay to argue with her; without losing a moment he hobbled out of doors again and went off to look for Christophe armed with the very vague clues given him by his neighbors.
"Nobody is accused," Crane cut in hastily. "You have found no clues ?" "Nary clue." "What I want to say to you, Monsieur Duchemin, is this: the stolen property has got to be recovered before this ship makes her dock in New York. It means the loss of my command if it isn't. It means more than that, according to my information; it means a disastrous calamity to the Allied cause.
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