There were no further excitements that night. I had breakfast in bed and got up late the next morning. Mrs. Blair hailed me as I came on deck.Good-mor...
I was violently excited. I was sure that I had hit on the right trail at last. One thing was clear, I must not move out of the cabin. The asaf?tida ha...
(Anne’s Narrative Resumed)It is most undignified for a heroine to be sea-sick. In books the more it rolls and tosses, the better she likes it. W...
(Extracts from the diary of Sir Eustace Pedler, M.P.)It is an extraordinary thing that I never seem to get any peace. I am a man who likes a quiet lif...
Shaking off the feelings that oppressed me, I went quickly upstairs. I had no difficulty in finding the room of the tragedy. On the day the body was d...
I went home with a feeling of exultation. My scheme had succeeded far better than I could possibly have hoped. Lord Nasby had been positively genial. ...
In the first heat of indignation I found my next step unexpectedly easy to tackle. I had had a half-formed plan in my head when I went into Scotland Y...
Nobody came forward to identify the dead woman. The inquest elicited the following facts.Shortly after one o’clock on January 8th, a well-dresse...
In the succeeding weeks I was a good deal bored.Mrs. Flemming and her friends seemed to me to be supremely uninteresting. They talked for hours of the...
Every one was very kind to me. Dazed as I was, I appreciated that. I felt no overwhelming grief. Papa had never loved me, I knew that well enough. If ...