And if you did not find them when you searched him--where are they?
Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds' worth!" Allerdyke took the three cablegrams from his visitor and carefully read them through, comparing them with the dates already known to him, and with Fullaway's messages in reply.

Eventually he put all the papers together, arranging them in sequence.

He laid them on the table between Fullaway and himself, and for a moment or two sat reflectively drumming the tips of his fingers on them.
"Who is this Princess Nastirsevitch ?" he asked suddenly looking up.
"Royalty, eh ?" "No," answered Fullaway, with a smile.

"I don't know much about these European titles and dignities, but I don't think the title of Prince means in Russia what it does in England.

A Prince there, I think, is some sort of nobleman, like your dukes and earls, and so on, here.