"It looks as though the skeleton had been taken away through that window." Quest nodded.
"Marvellous!" he murmured.
"You are making fun of me," she protested.
"Not I! But you see, my young friend, the point is this.

Who in their senses would want to steal an anthropoid skeleton except a scientific man, and if a scientific man stole it out of sheer jealousy, why in thunder couldn't he be content with just mutilating it, which would have destroyed its value just as well--What's that ?" He stopped short.

A newsboy thrust the paper at them.

Quest glanced at the headlines.

Lenora clutched at his arm.