The tense expression about Mr.Czenki's eyes was dissipated, and he sighed a little.
"I saw the Red Haney affair in the newspapers this morning, as you will know," he continued after a moment.

"It was desirable that I should come here with Miss Kellner, but it was not desirable, even under those circumstances, that I should permit myself to be followed.

That's how it happens that Mr.Claflin and Mr.Sutton are now locked up in my house." Again there was a pause.

"Mr.Birnes, I know, will be glad to confirm my statement of the case in so far as his instructions from Mr.Latham and the other gentlemen interested bear on it ?" Chief Arkwright glanced at the detective inquiringly.
"That's right," Mr.Birnes admitted with an uncertain nod--"that is, so far as my instructions go.

I understood, though, that the diamonds were worth more than sixty thousand dollars; in fact, that there might have been a million dollars' worth of them." "A million dollars!" repeated Chief Arkwright in amazement.