Only be quick!" The millionaire had watched the faces of father and son with very keen eyes while the detective had been speaking: "Off you go, Buist!" he broke in.

"I know where I am! Go, man! Go!" The detective jumped out of the car, and Sir Tancred said, "Go to M.
Lautrec at the Police Bureau at Monte Carlo.

He's the best man to set things moving.

Tell him to wire as far as Genoa: there's nothing like being on the safe side." And Tinker started the car.
Two miles further on they came upon a peasant woman tramping slowly along, with a heavy basket on her head.

Tinker stopped the car, and Sir Tancred asked her if she had seen a lady and a little girl walking on the Corniche between that spot and Monte Carlo.