 If your name is George Valentine, you can't help accepting this case as a personal challenge. Oh, if I'd only moved a little faster, I might have saved Lana Severo. Oh, no, George, you couldn't have helped her. No, the trail was rigged in advance, Valentine. Don't you understand? Nobody ever used it, and it had been weakened so much that the weight of a mouse would have started the rocks rolling. The telegram sent from that Eric Stanton brought her onto the trail. Sure, sure. Hey, you're not going to start reading that book again, are you, Valentine? The stories of the operas.