Excerpts from the Book 'Agatha Webb':

... they to a man uttered a cry. Mrs. Webb. Why, it was impossible. Shouting in their turn for Mr. Sutherland, they all crowded forward. Not Mrs. ...
... the dead woman, he discovered the key in her tightly closed hand. Where does this key belong. he asked. They showed him the drawers in the cupboard. One ...
... distance between himself and these unwelcome intruders. The coroner's wishes are paramount just now, said he, but the look he gave his son was not soon ...
... of these you see written here.. Mr. Crane glanced at the card on which the other had scribbled a couple of names, and started perceptibly. You ...
... But one means of escape presented itself. It was a cowardly one but anything was better than to make an attempt to stand his ground against two such ...
... said he, and hear your report when you are done.. The detective had already begun his investigations. Here is a spot of blood, said he. ...
... most, and this is how I came to note the eagerness with which, during the first part of the evening, Frederick Sutherland and Amabel Page came together ...
... was thrilled by his words. Not had a good meal, these men, for a fortnight. I felt as if personally guilty of their suffering, and, happening to raise ...
... shoulder and espied in the moonlight at his feet a dagger so like the one I had lately handled in Mrs. Webb's yard that I was overwhelmed with astonishment, ...
... safely, not to say discreetly, harboured in our own house.. Frederick, taken aback, for he had not realised that his father had seen these papers, ...
... he opened it. Frederick as mechanically watched him. I know, said the latter, that I have no better friend. You have been too good, too indulgent. ...
... Sweetwater, but he kept his temper admirably and, with an air of bravado entirely assumed for the occasion, said to Dr. Talbot:. I think I shall have ...
... Sutherland moved from the window and crossed to the door like a man in a dream. Frederick, instantly conscious of his departure, turned to follow him, ...
... stumbled. The shoes he wore did not fit him. Be careful, there. shouted the woman, in a shrill, almost frightened voice, while the man stumbled back ...
... you. shouted out Wattles as Sweetwater was drawing off. It was the third time he had been asked that question within twenty-four hours, but not ...
... as to the motives which led me into her presence. And when I saw, by her clearing brow and peaceful look, that I had fully persuaded her of this, I ...
... such feelings, what should she say to these men how conduct herself under questions which would be much more searching now than before. She could not ...
... me the money it shall be returned to-morrow. You cannot have disposed of it already. After which, you, or rather I, will be in the eyes of the world ...
... even in the heaven to which we all look for joy after our weary pilgrimage is over, how often in this troublous world, and in these days of your early ...
... was the amateur detective who had by some folly of his own been carried off on the Hesper, and who was probably the only man saved from its wreck, he ...