He lives in a court or lane running out of Long Acre, and he offers advice to persons interested in recovering missing objects of any sort.

Whether you have lost your wife, or lost your cigar-case, Old Sharon is equally useful to you.

He has an inbred capacity for reading the riddle the right way in cases of mystery, great or small.

In short, he possesses exactly that analytical faculty to which I alluded just now.

I have his address at my office, if you think it worth while to try him." "Who can trust such a man ?" Mr.Troy objected.