CHAPTER XVIMR. ELLISON’S PAST
Nick and his assistants had returned to Nick’s apartments, which were not far distant from Mr. Sanborn’s house.
There, settling themselves down to look over the new case on which they were engaged, the first thing that they were confronted with was a want of knowledge as to the antecedents of Norman Ellison, who had so mysteriously disappeared.
“Although Mr. Sanborn,” said Nick, “confided this thing to our hands immediately, it was no time, when he was so agitated and so anxious over the condition of his daughter, to ask him the questions which immediately leaped into my mind. But, what is apparent is, that we cannot even make a place of beginning until we know more about this man, Norman Ellison.”
He got up and paced up and down his room for a while, and
