"I guess your police over here aren't quite so smart as ours, or they'd have been on the track of this thing before now.

But you can take it from me that when the truth comes out you'll find that our poor friend has paid the penalty of going about the world like a crank." "A what ?" Somerfield asked doubtfully.
"A crank," Mr.Coulson repeated vigorously.

"It wasn't much I knew of Hamilton Fynes, but I knew that much.

He was one of those nervous, stand-off sort of persons who hated to have people talk to him and yet was always doing things to make them talk about him.

I was over in Europe with him not so long ago, and he went on in the same way.