I have been spoiling for some such opportunity.

See if I don't make the effort judiciously, if only out of gratitude." "Well, we shall see," remarked the old detective.

"If it's difficulty you long to encounter, you will be likely to have all you want of it.
Indeed, it is the impossible I ask.

A woman is to be found of whom we know nothing save that she wore when last seen a dress heavily bespangled with black, and that she carried in her visit to Mr.Adams, at the time of or before the murder, a parasol, of which I can procure you a glimpse before you start out.

She came from, I don't know where, and she went--but that is what you are to find out.