Excerpts from the Book 'The Leavenworth Case':

... the head by some unknown person while sitting at his library table. Shot! murdered! I could scarcely believe my ears. How? when? I gasped. Last ...
... short, what use Mr. Leavenworth had for such an assistant and how he employed you? Certainly. Mr. Leavenworth was, as you perhaps know, a man of great ...
... which her own servants hastened to procure for her, with an ease and dignity that rather recalled the triumphs of the drawing-room than the self-consciousness ...
... will never find any paper or anything else suspicious in Eleanore's possession, Mary interrupted. In the first place, there was no paper of importance ...
... no one in the house who did not belong there. Oh! then we can breathe easily again. I glanced hastily up and down the room. There is no one here, ...
... standing with her hand upon the breast of the dead, her face upraised and mirroring a glory, I could not recall without emotion and Mary, fleeing a short ...
... to make little or no progress. Mr. Clavering, disturbed perhaps by my presence, forsook his usual haunts, thus depriving me of all opportunity of making his ...
... I cannot inform you do not ask me, Mr. Raymond. And she glanced at the clock for the second time. I took another turn. Miss Leavenworth, you once ...
... man, I could feel his stealthy form traverse the passage, enter the room beyond, pass to that stand where the pistol was, try the drawer, find it locked, ...
... about 5000 pounds per year, and appearances give color to this statement. Property consists of a small estate in Hertfordshire, and some funds, amount ...
... to do what is wisest under the circumstances. Go home, then, as speedily as possible. And he gave a third sharp nod exceedingly business-like and ...
... in your judgment of her than her cousin was, it appears. I do not understand you, I muttered, feeling a new and yet more fearful light breaking ...
... And, throwing open a door at my side, she displayed a small, but comfortable room, in which I could dimly see a bed, an immense bureau, and a shadowy ...
... and- Never mind the long story, I interrupted. Let me hear the one vital reason. Well, said she, it is this that Mary was in an emergency from ...
... I want you, said she, and would have left the house without another word, but I caught her by the arm. Oh, miss- I began, but she gave ...
... them? Was the telegram of a nature peremptory enough to make his presence here, sick as he was, an absolute certainty? The written confession of Hannah ...
... somewhere about the house? Examine it well the matter is important. I have, and I say, no, I never had a sheet of paper like that in my house. Mr. ...
... no intention of giving him up.' 'Then why not tell Uncle so?' I asked. Her only answer was a bitter smile and a short,-'I leave that for you to do.' July ...
... and made to serve my purpose. Taking her down to the parlor floor, I drew her into the depths of the great drawing-room, and there told her in the ...
... had reached that point-I was fearful of one whose ears I myself had forever closed, imagined him in his bed beneath and wakeful to the least sound. But ...