I am well aware that an ordinary jewel robbery does not interest you, but in this case the circumstances are extraordinary.

I ventured, therefore, to summon your aid." Sanford Quest nodded shortly.
"As a rule," he said, "I do not care to take up one affair until I have a clean slate.

There's your skeleton still bothering me, Professor.

However, where's the lady who was robbed ?" "I will take you to her," the Professor replied.

Mrs.Rheinholdt's story, by frequent repetition, had become a little more coherent, a trifle more circumstantial, the perfection of simplicity and utterly incomprehensible.
Quest listened to it without remark and finally made his way to the conservatory.