" In discussing their new find and attempting to solve its meaning, the three friends forgot for the time being the melancholy tidings they had received that morning, and gave themselves up to a full enjoyment of the mystery.

"Really, my dear Marthe, I do not feel myself competent to solve all the problems of the labor question," said Mr. Everidge carelessly.

" "Don't you even want to solve the mystery?" asked Chet, in an aggrieved voice.

The doctor, beguiled by professional vanity, feeling what a feather she was in his cap, quite confident that she would reach her hundredth birthday, and with an ecstatic hope that even, by grace of his admirable treatment and her own beautiful constitution, she might (almost) solve the problem and live forever, gave up troubling about the will which at a former period he had taken so much interest in.

" "Well," he smiled, "just to oblige you, we will solve it first, then.

The question I want to solve is, did it belong to Sir Horace, or to some one who visited him on the night he was murdered?

I would feel sore myself in your place, and I don't deny that we got information that put us on Birchill's track, and therefore it was easier for us to solve the mystery than it was for you.

He felt sure there was a connection between these facts, which, if brought to light, would solve the Riversbrook mystery.

"But one thing I will solve, and that is where this miserable fellow spent the hours between this dinner they speak of and the time of his return next day.

The evidence, pointing as it did in two opposing directions, presented a problem which a coroner's jury could hardly be expected to solve.

"Ye know, my sons," he began, "with what ardour I am reputed to have striven to penetrate the hidden secrets of Nature, and to solve the problems which have allured and baffled the sages of all time.

And there are other mysteries which the English police are trying to solve, namely, the reason Armida Santini and a man disguised as her husband died in Scotland at the hand of an assassin.

Surely to no man was there ever presented such a complicated problem as that which I was now trying so vigorously to solve.

I have done my utmost: I have striven to solve the dark mystery, but up to the present I have been unsuccessful, and have only remained, even till to-day, the victim of circumstance.

" "But I mean to solve this mystery, Olinto," I said fiercely, for I was in no trifling mood.

" What is the proper key for LOCKE'S music, is a question which we have never attempted to solve, but we heartily wish that the key were lost forever, since by its aid the singers open vistas of musical dreariness which are disheartening to the last degree.

"It takes me a long time to figure a thing out," he said; "and when I've a problem to solve a bit of a snooze helps wonderfully.

The poor child was called upon to solve a queer problemone which might well have bewildered the brain of a more experienced person.

As soon as it attempts to solve those problems it becomes incoherent and unthinkable.

The scope of these lectures is, not to prove the doctrine of the Trinity philosophically, but to show that the difficulty besetting the conception of a multiplicity of persons united by a superpersonal bond, is just the same difficulty that brings idealistic philosophy to a dead-lock when it endeavours (1) to escape from solipsism, (2) to vindicate free-will,(3) to solve the problem of evil.

If so, they may be able to solve the few problems that have entirely baffled me, and to explain, if they so choose, the secrets to which, intentionally or through the destruction of its introductory portion, the manuscript affords no clue.

The cloudlet might be a distant comet, it might be a less distant body of meteors clustering densely in some particular part of their orbit; and, unfortunately, I was not likely to solve the problem.

Anaxagoras allowed his patrimony to run to waste in order to solve problems.

The problem he sought to solve was the way to live like the Deity; he would contemplate truth as the great aim of life.

We saw the weather vane fixed upon this spire, and how the man who did the job managed to keep his head from spinning right round, and then right off, was at the time an exciting mystery to us which we have not yet been able to properly solve.