Something should be done to conserve them.
Transome Kent was not a detective.

He was a reporter.

After sweeping everything at Harvard in front of him, and then behind him, he had joined the staff of the _Planet_ two months before.

His rise had been phenomenal.

In his first week of work he had unravelled a mystery, in his second he had unearthed a packing scandal which had poisoned the food of the entire nation for ten years, and in his third he had pitilessly exposed some of the best and most respectable people in the metropolis.