He shivered like a man who has taken a sudden chill.

Nothing in all this morning's investigations, not even the rigid body beneath the sheet, nor the strange discovery of the jewels, had so impressed Ricardo.

For there he had been confronted with facts, definite and complete; here was a suggestion of unknown horrors, a hint, not a fact, compelling the imagination to dark conjecture.

Hanaud shivered.

That he had no idea why Hanaud shivered made the action still more significant, still more alarming.