For some reason, probably because of a permissible vagueness in statements couched in a foreign tongue, he insisted on using English.
"Eef you haf seen my frien's you tell me vare I fin' dem.

I come your office to-morrow, an' make ze complete explanation," he said.
"I must trouble you to-night, please," insisted Steingall quietly.
"You don't understand what has occurred while you were fastened up here.

You know Mr.Henry R.Hunter ?" "Yes, yes.

I know heem." "Well, he was stabbed while alighting from an automobile outside this hotel shortly before eight o'clock, and I imagine he was coming to see you." "Stabbed! Did zey keel heem ?" "Yes.

Now, tell me who 'they' were." Monsieur Jean de Courtois was taken instantly and violently ill.