Excerpts from the Book 'The Ninescore Mystery And Other Stories':

... and told me to hold my tongue. Asked if she had mentioned the incident of the papers to anyone, Jane replied in the negative. ...
... as when she had started three hours earlier. Only I, who knew her so well, noted the glitter of triumph in her eyes, and knew that she had not failed. ...
... party, although the surliness of our host somewhat marred the festivities. But imagine two such beautiful young women as my own dear lady and Margaret ...
... the Haggett story merely as a clue, they worked diligently on that, with the result that twenty-four hours later Etty appeared in our private room ...
... I remember well that, throughout his preliminary ordeal, young Smethick bore himself like one who had given up all hope of refuting ...
... here interposed the woman, roughly. What do you mean? We ain't going to the Union? Well! but since you are not staying here, rejoined ...
... again? asked Lady Molly. Yes-I think I should, said the waitress. It was black velvet and had a lot of plumes. It was enormous, she ...
... the chief, and finally walked out of his office, followed by her faithful Mary. Following Katherine Harris's indications, a description ...
... him. It would have upset him, I know no doubt his aunt would have cut him out of her will. That is all I wanted, but I did not care enough about ...
... of course, one cannot allow a human life to be sworn away without bringing every possible proof to bear on such a statement, and I am sure that everyone ...
... he never turned up. Lady Molly asked several more questions about Sir Jeremiah, which Captain Hubert answered in a listless way. He had ...
... dispositions were not known. He had made a will in 1902 bequeathing Appledore and everything he possessed unconditionally to his beloved grandson, ...
... veil of tears. Captain Hubert's footsteps could still be heard going along the hall below. Lady Molly listened until the final echo of that ...
... his escape from Dartmoor? Yes, I know that, said my dear lady quietly. Well, I have reason to-to suppose, continued ...
... Truscott & Truscott used to be the family solicitors. Yes. It seemed curious that when Sir Jeremiah wished to make his will he sent ...
... She liked to wander over the ground where was committed that mysterious crime which had sent to ignominy worse than death the man she loved so passionately. ...
... bicycles not long after Mr. Felkin. At the very moment that the weird spectacle burst fully upon our gaze a loud cry of horror had just ...
... little in the way of clues, only that awful intuition, that dark, unspoken suspicion with regard to one particular man's guilt, which one could feel ...
... been murdered by some unknown miscreant. Then the murderer quietly returned to his luxurious home at Edbrooke Castle unsuspected. No one ...
... of whom she had issue two daughters, Henriette Marie, heir now to the ancient barony of d'Alboukirk of Fordwych, and Joan, born two years later. ...