Their disappearance has more in it than the usual significance.

Evil may have come to them, but not the ordinary sort of evil.

Listen! You say that the police have disappointed you in having discovered nothing.

That is no longer extraordinary to me.

The police, or those who stand behind them, are interested in this case, and in the withholding of information concerning it." "You are talking riddles to me, Spencer," Duncombe declared.