What is that slender, column-like structure to the left of the Singer Building ?" Devar gazed hard at the graceful tower indicated by his friend; then he laughed.
"Oh, you're uncanny, that's what you are," he said.

"You've lived so long in the East that you've imbibed its tricks of occultism and necromancy.

I suppose you have discovered in some way that that mushroom has sprung up since the old man sent me to Heidelberg ?" "I guessed it, I admit.

It does not figure among the down-town sky-scrapers in the latest drawing available in London." "And d'ye mean to tell me that you can pick out any of these top-notchers merely by studying a picture ?" "Yes.

Probably you could do the same if you, like me, felt yourself a returned exile." Young Devar awoke at last to the fact that his companion was brimming over with subdued excitement.