What are you working on this morning, Laura ?" "Same old stunt," the girl replied.

"I have been reading up the records of the savants of New York.

From what I can make out about them, it doesn't seem to me that there's one amongst the whole bunch likely to have pluck enough to tamper with the Professor's skeleton." Quest frowned a little gloomily.

He rose to his feet and moved restlessly about the room.
"Say, girls," he confessed, "this is the first time in my life I have been in a fix like this.

Two cases on hand and nothing doing with either of them.