I've done all I can--I've told the manager there, and I've told those two policemen, and not a man of them seems able to suggest anything! Perhaps you can." With that she disappeared and slammed the door of the bedroom, and the six men, left in a bunch, looked at each other.

Then one of the detectives spoke, shaking his head and smiling grimly.
"It's all very well to say we suggest nothing," he said.

"We want some facts to go on first.

Up to now, all the lady's done is to storm at us and at everybody--she seems to think all Edinburgh's in a conspiracy to rob her! We don't know any circumstances yet, except that she says she's been robbed.

Perhaps--" "Wait a bit," interrupted Fullaway.