"I have nothing to say for the benefit of the Post-Dispatch." "You'd better," said Terry, imperturbably.

"The Post-Dispatch prints the truth, you know, and some of the other papers don't.

The truth's always the best in the end.

I merely want to find out what information you can give me in regard to the ghost." "I will tell you nothing," Radnor growled.

"I am not giving statements to the press." "Mr.Gaylord," said Terry, with an assumption of gentle patience, "if you will excuse my referring to what I know must be a painful subject, would you mind telling me if the suspicion has ever crossed your mind that your brother Jefferson may have returned secretly, have abstracted the bonds from the safe, and, two weeks later, quite accidentally, have met Colonel Gaylord alone in the cave--" Radnor turned upon him in a sudden fury; I thought for a moment he was going to strike him and I sprang forward and caught his arm.
"The Gaylords may be a bad lot but they are not liars and they are not cowards.