There 's no one else knows quite as much about them." "Well, we'll let it go at that," Tavernake declared.

"You know so much of all these people, though, that I rather wish you 'd tell me something I want very much to know." "It's by telling nothing," the detective replied quickly, "that I know as much as I do.

Just one cocktail, eh ?" Tavernake shook his head.
"I drank my first cocktail last night," he remarked.

"I had supper with the professor and his daughter." "Not Elizabeth ?" Pritchard asked swiftly.
Tavernake shook his head.
"With Miss Beatrice," he answered.
Pritchard set down his glass.
"Say, Tavernake," he inquired, "you are friendly with that young lady, Miss Beatrice, aren't you ?" "I certainly am," Tavernake answered.

"I have a very great regard for her." "Then I can tell you how to do her a good turn," Pritchard continued, earnestly.