"Such coherence--such an eye for detail.

Pass the matches, Wrayson.

Thanks, old chap!" The Colonel smiled placidly.
"I am afraid," he said, "that I should never have had the heart to sentence anybody to anything, but I must admit that things of this sort do interest me.

I love to weigh them up and theorize.

The more melodramatic they are the better." Heneage helped himself to a cigarette from Mason's case, and leaned back in his chair.
"I never have the patience," he remarked, "to read about these things in the newspapers, but the Colonel's _resume_ is always thrilling.