"They keep that sort of rubbish on the other side of the pond." "Ah!" Mr.Sabin was thoughtful for a moment.

"You expect to find, then," he remarked, "some other cause for my wife's disappearance ?" "There don't seem much room for doubt concerning that, sir," Mr.Skinner said; "but I never speculate.

I will bring you the facts to-night between eight and eleven.

Now as to the business side of it." Mr.Sabin was for a moment puzzled.
"What's the job worth to you ?" Mr.Skinner asked.

"I am willing to pay," Mr.Sabin answered, "according to your demands." "It's a simple case," Mr.Skinner admitted, "but our man at the Waldorf is expensive.