Red Széll

But it was a chance, as the result showed.

These people had never, to my knowledge, done a murder.

They might shrink from actual violence at the last.

They could bury her with no sign of how she met her end and even if she were exhumed there was a chance for them.

I hoped that such considerations might prevail with them.

You can reconstruct the scene well enough.

You saw the horrible den upstairs where the poor lady had been kept so long.

They rushed in and overpowered her with their chloroform, carried her down, poured more into the coffin to ensure against her waking, and then screwed down the lid.

A clever device, Watson.

It is new to me in the annals of crime.

If our ex-missionary friends escape the clutches of Lestrade, I shall expect to hear of some brilliant incidents in their future career.

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