"See what you can do in spite of it," she said wistfully.
3
I need not take the space to put down all the operations of my early
reasoning on the case. I had plenty to think about. But every avenue
my thoughts followed was blocked sooner or later by a blank wall.
Never in my whole experience have I been asked to take up such a blind
trail--and this was my first case, remember. Six weeks lost beyond
recall! It was discouraging.