See if you can make aught out of it--they always say you Yankees have sharp brains.

Try to see a bit of daylight! So far it licks me." He gave the American a brief yet full account of all that had happened since his receipt of James Allerdyke's wireless message.

And Fullaway listened in silence, taking everything in, making no interruption, and at the end he spoke quietly and with decision.
"We must find that woman--Miss Celia Lennard--and at once," he said.
"That's absolutely necessary." "Just so," agreed Allerdyke.

"But look here--I've been thinking that over.

Is it very likely that a woman who'd stolen two hundred and fifty thousand pounds' worth of stuff from an hotel would wire back to its manager, giving her address, for the sake of a shoe-buckle, even one set with diamonds ?" "I'm not--for the moment--supposing that she is the thief," answered Fullaway.