I tried to snatch the dagger away--I did so, in fact--but I must have been too late.

He had already applied that slight movement of the fingers which was necessary.

The doctor has just left.

He says that death must have been instantaneous." "But this is horrible!" Francis cried out into the well of darkness.
"A person is on the way from Scotland Yard," the voice continued, without change or tremor.

"When he has satisfied himself, I am going to bed.