"Glad to meet you, Mr.Quest.
We've heard of you over here.

Take a chair." "To tell you the truth," Quest replied, "my business is a little urgent." "Glad to hear you've got that fellow Craig," Mr.Hardaway continued.
"Ridiculous the way he managed to slip through our fingers.

I understand you've got him all right now, though ?" "He is safe enough," Quest declared, "but to tell you the truth, I'm worried about another little affair." "Go on," the other invited.
"My assistant, a young lady, Miss Lenora Macdougal, has disappeared! She and I and Professor Ashleigh left the steamer at Plymouth and travelled up in the boat train.

It was stopped at Hamblin Road for the Professor and myself, and Miss Macdougal came on to London.

She was staying at Clifford's Hotel in Payne Street for the night, and then going on to an aunt.