No ordinary man, no occasional criminal, would have shown himself capable of this combination.

We have in our neighbourhood, it is far from improbable, a retired bandit of the highest order of intelligence.' 'Good heaven!' cried the horrified Anastasie.

'Henri, how can you ?' 'My cherished one, this is a process of induction,' said the Doctor.

'If any of my steps are unsound, correct me.

You are silent?
Then do not, I beseech you, be so vulgarly illogical as to revolt from my conclusion.