There's the nugget and there's the snake, but the wedding ring is gone." "He's right," said Barker.
"Do you tell me," said the sergeant, "that the wedding ring was BELOW the other ?" "Always!" "Then the murderer, or whoever it was, first took off this ring you call the nugget ring, then the wedding ring, and afterwards put the nugget ring back again." "That is so!" The worthy country policeman shook his head.

"Seems to me the sooner we get London on to this case the better," said he.

"White Mason is a smart man.

No local job has ever been too much for White Mason.

It won't be long now before he is here to help us.