One day, having questioned him about his parents, of whom he never spoke, he left me, pretending not to have heard what I said.
While things were in this state between us, the famous case of The Yellow Room took place.

It was this case which was to rank him as the leading newspaper reporter, and to obtain for him the reputation of being the greatest detective in the world.

It should not surprise us to find in the one man the perfection of two such lines of activity if we remember that the daily press was already beginning to transform itself and to become what it is to-day--the gazette of crime.
Morose-minded people may complain of this; for myself I regard it a matter for congratulation.

We can never have too many arms, public or private, against the criminal.

To this some people may answer that, by continually publishing the details of crimes, the press ends by encouraging their commission.