So far, too, the police seem completely at a loss." "Ah!" she went on, shaking her head, "your police, I am afraid they are not very clever.

It is too bad, but I am afraid that it is so.
Tell me, Mr.Laverick, is this, then, a very lonely spot where your offices are ?" "Not at all," Laverick replied.

"On the contrary, in the daytime it might be called the heart of the city--of the money-making part of the city, at any rate.

Only this thing, you see, seems to have taken place very late at night." "When all the offices were closed," she remarked.
"Most of them," Laverick answered.

"Mine, as it happened, was open late that night.