Or was his cryptic smile an indication that he expected the man to confess guilt?

Reisl offered a cryptic smile and went back to gaming.

"That's probably the reason I'm here, then," he said with a cryptic little smile.

"Nothing Sinead likes better than a race against time," he said with a second cryptic smile.

But the Chinese cop just gave a cryptic smile.

"You have done well," said Altas with that same cryptic smile.

The man on the ledge gazed after him with a cryptic smile.

"Anyway, I'm interested in doing a variety of many other things," he said with his usual cryptic smile.

"That's too long a story," he said with a cryptic smile.