“In no other way?”
“None.”
“Then, as Mr. Sibley said this morning, it is very mysterious,” Nick dryly declared, rising to go.
“So many think, as I said this morning.”
“I will say, Madame Victoria, that I had no more malicious design in coming here in disguise than that of proving the validity of some of your claims to occult powers. I might add, too, that you have given me one of the most curious problems of my life.”
“Indeed!”
“I shall, however, make it a point to—solve the problem.”
Madame Victoria laughed, and eyed him oddly from under her drooping lids.
“If you do solve it, which involves learning how I get these impressions, Detective Carter, you will do more than I can,” she said, rising to bid him adieu.