He began to talk at once, stretching himself out in a Morris chair, and accepting a cigar.

This time Price smoked with him.
"Well," said the detective, "it's like the game of button, button, who's got the button?
Sometimes I think I'm getting a little warmer and then I go stone cold.

But I've found out a few things, anyhow.

How tall should you say Madame Delano is?
I've only seen her sitting on her throne there in the Palace Court lookin' like an old Sphinx that's havin' a laugh all to herself." "About five feet ten." "The Mother Superior said six feet, but no doubt when she had figger instead of flesh she looked taller.

Well, I've discovered no less than five tall handsome brunettes that sparkled here in the late Eighties and early Nineties, but it's the deuce and all to get an exact description out of anybody, especially when quite a few years have elapsed.