Sinopsis

"Mr. Alvarez, I am very poor; I cannot offer you a large reward, but I have saved a few hundred dollars, and those I will give you if you are successful in finding my lost child." Jack Alvarez, the detective, was seated in his office when a veiled woman entered and addressed him in the language with which we open our narrative. The detective was a kind-hearted man, well-to-do financially, and as it occurred not immediately engaged on any special job. He looked the visitor over a moment and then said: "Madam, before I can entertain your proposition at all, I must see your face." "Is that necessary, sir?" "It is." "I am sorry." "Why?"