growing far too metaphysical for a simple scientist like me. Ricori, I can't lay this matter before the police.
They would listen politely and laugh heartily after I had gone. If I told all that is in my mind to the medical
authorities, they would deplore the decadence of a hitherto honored intellect. And I would rather not call
in any private detective agency to pursue inquiries."
"What do you want me to do?" he asked.
"You have unusual resources," I answered. "I want you to sift every movement of Peters and Hortense
Darnley for the past two months. I want you to do all that is possible in the same way with the others-"
I hesitated.
"I want you to find that one place to which, because of their love for children, each of these unfortunates
was drawn. For though my reason tells me you and Braile have not the slightest real evidence upon which