"I told him so," nodding back to the building from which we had just issued, "and he promised secrecy.

It can be done without folks knowing anything about it, can't it ?" "What ?" I asked.
"Finding the girl." "Well," said I, "we can tell you better about that when we know a few more of the facts.

What is the girl's name and what makes you think she didn't go out of the house-door of her own accord ?" "Why, why, everything.

She wasn't the person to do it; then the looks of her room, and--They all got out of the window," she cried suddenly, "and went away by the side gate into ------ Street." "They?
Who do you mean by they ?" "Why, whoever they were who carried her off." I could not suppress the "bah!" that rose to my lips.

Mr.Gryce might have been able to, but I am not Gryce.
"You don't believe," said she, "that she was carried off ?" "Well, no," said I, "not in the sense you mean." She gave another nod back to the police station now a block or so distant.