Excerpts from the Book 'The Gloved Hand':

... in an instant. Your mail, sir, he said, laid it at my elbow, and went out. I turned to the letters with an interest the reverse of lively. The ...
... He shook his head savagely, then, after a rapid turn up and down, seemed to agree, bowed low toher, and went rapidly away toward the house. The woman ...
... see that you have given me any reason why I should assist you against him. I haven't, Swain admitted more calmly, and under ordinary circumstances, ...
... table, his eyes gleaming with an almost fiendish excitement then the gleam faded, and he turned back to the girl. Godfrey cast one astonished glance ...
... shape and I saw it was a man. I had a queer fancy, as I stood there, that it was really a picture into which I was gazing-one of Rembrandt's-for, gradually, one ...
... necessarily. Suppose you were sitting there, and heard a noise, and looked around and saw me standing here, you wouldn't jump from the chair, ...
... is he? I asked. He seems to be all right. He's been up for some time. I haven't said anything to him about last night-I wanted the doctor ...
... with staring eyes. I did not blame him. Indeed, I felt that my own eyes were staring a little, though I already knew the story. But Godfrey, with a ...
... got from her, and finally she was excused. The reporters yawned. The jury twitched nervously. Worthington Vaughan was dead he had been strangled-so much ...
... senses about him but his presumption is that the crime was committed while Swain was in a dazed condition and not wholly self-controlled. Such a thing ...
... him, and Swain sprang to his feet. We must explain to him how important it is. Perhaps I can get him on the 'phone, I said but the person who ...
... with good news, he added. Yes-and with good news. Can we give you a lift? Blake asked. No, I said, thank you but I'm staying out here for the present. I ...
... heard Miss Vaughan's screams. After that, Swain isn't out of our sight for more than a minute-too short a time, anyway, for anything to have happened ...
... by one of those Hindus. He intimated something of the sort to me, said Simmonds but there's no evidence against them. No, I conceded that's ...
... the amount. I glanced at the yogi, but his revery remained unbroken. Then I laid the packets on the table and dipped deeper into the drawer. There ...
... taste, but I could feel it running through my veins, and it cleared my mind and steadied my nerves as though by magic. I sat up and looked at the ...
... open,and stood aside for his superior officer to lead the way. What's wrong? Simmonds asked. I don't know-but the girl showed a light at her window. You ...
... and ragged object he held in his hand. It was, apparently, an ordinary rubber glove, such as surgeons sometimes use, and it was torn and crumpled, as ...
... of them was successful. Was Swain's one of them? asked Godfrey. No but when Mr. Lester told me that Fred was suspected because of those finger-prints, ...
... to the place: an historical record of murders and stabbings and quarrels dating back to Saxon days, when a castle had stood on the spot, and every inch ...