This clear-sighted girl would soon have the various threads of the enigma in her hands, and then she could not fail but discover the true meaning of Edith Lester's death.
"That phase of the problem has yet to be solved," was his noncommittal reply.
Winter rejoined them somewhat hurriedly.

He looked puzzled and rather irritated.
"Furneaux has made an arrest," he said.

"A Chinaman, described as Len Shi, is lodged in the cells at Bow Street, on a charge of being concerned in the Innesmore Mansions murder.

Furneaux is out, and that is all they know at the Yard.

What I cannot understand is why no inquiry has been made by telephone or otherwise concerning Miss Forbes's flight to Eastbourne." The words had hardly left his mouth when the bell of a telephone on the table jangled.