"I think I'll try for it," he said.

"Fifty thousand!" "How could any one try unless he or she's some clue ?" she asked.

"If you don't know anything about it, or any of the persons concerned, where would you begin ?" "There are plenty of persons named in these accounts about whom one could find something out, at any rate," replied Appleyard, tapping the newspaper with his finger.

"There's a Russian Princess with a sneezy sort of name; a Yorkshire manufacturer named Allerdyke; an American man called Franklin Fullaway--all seem to be well-known people in town.

You ever hear of any of them ?" Miss Slade turned a face of absolute indifference on him and the paper to which he was pointing.
"Never," she answered calmly.