They were drawn on six different banks.

Does that make any impression on your mind ?" "Queer, certainly! But what do you gather from it ?" "That he wanted no gossip about his wealth.

No single man should know what he had.

I have no doubt that he has twenty banking accounts; the bulk of his fortune abroad in the Deutsche Bank or the Credit Lyonnais as likely as not.

Sometime when you have a year or two to spare I commend to you the study of Professor Moriarty." Inspector MacDonald had grown steadily more impressed as the conversation proceeded.