"It is full of mystery and murder and all that.

Beagle Ben, the detective, is a corker! That fellow can look a man over and tell what he had for dinner by the expression around the corners of his mouth.

He sees through a crook as easily as you can look through a plate-glass window.
And the mysteries in this story are enough to give a fellow the nightmare.

I wonder why such mysterious things never happen in real life ?" "Perhaps they do occasionally." The way Frank spoke the words caused Bart to turn and look him over wonderingly.
"Hello!" he said.

"What's struck you?
You are breathing as if you had been running, but you're rather pale round the gills." "I have had an adventure." "You are always having adventures.