He did not wait for the expected report, but questioned the detective at once.
"You have been to the hotel," he said, pointing out a chair into which the old man dropped with a sigh as eloquent of anxiety as of fatigue.
"What more did you learn there ?" "Very little.

No message has come; no persons called.

For them and for us these two women, Madame Duclos and Miss Willetts, are still an unknown quantity.

Their baggage, which arrived while I was there, supplied the only information I was able to obtain." "Their baggage! But that should tell us everything." "It may if you think best to go through it.

It is not heavy--a trunk for each, besides the one they brought with them from the steamer.