"They will aid you."
"How can they aid me? Italy is a very big country. I'd look foolish merely to tell them that a robbery had been committed in Rome and that I wanted to find out something about it."
"What do you want?"
"I want something to start on."
"The Roman police have given us all they can."
"They haven't given us anything."
"Then you think it's no use to start in?"
"I didn't say so. If the man is in New York I'll find him, but I must have something to work on."
"I don't know what I can give you."
"I want a photograph of every member of the family that was robbed. I want a photograph of the servant that was killed, and then I want certain questions answered direct from the family."