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Rh young lady, travelling alone, did arrive by the continental train, that she had been met by a young man, and they had gone off in a taxi.  You don't know where they went to?

 No. The train being a heavy one, the taxi had to be taken in the Strand. It can't be traced, sir.

 But you think they went to that house in Soho Square?

 I'm practically sure of it, sir.

 You also think that some hocus-pocus exchange took place there, and while the Swiss girl remained in Soho——

 The girl Schiller came here, sir.

 [Drawing himself up.] Mr. Commissioner, I tell you frankly, I shall be sorry if I am compelled to accept your story.

 No doubt, sir.

 In the first place, it requires me to believe that a woman—a mere girl—would dare to enter the house