“Nor her description?”

“I have not heard that. Describe her.”

“First, she seems to be a woman of extraordinary beauty, and of an uncommon type I should say, from all that I have heard.”

“Light or dark?”

“A pronounced brunette—rather of the Spanish type, I should say, from what I have been told; or the Italian.”

“No; it suggests nothing. Perhaps if I should see her, or a picture of her, it might suggest something; but at the present moment I have no information to offer.”

“When you were a child you were—as children are so—practically in love with Jimmy, were you not?”

“Yes. I never got over it, either, until I discovered that he was a professional criminal.”

“Was there not another young woman, or girl, at that time, who——”