If we had gone back together he would not have shown himself, that's all, and he would have waited for a better chance.

If I had only followed you I should have seen what happened." "That is the trouble," said Marcello thoughtfully.

"No one ever saw what happened, and I remember nothing but that I fell forward, feeling that I had been struck on the back of the head.

Did you not hear any sound ?" "How could I, in such a gale as was blowing?
It all looks dreadfully likely and quite possible, and the Professor is convinced that your stepfather has done some worse things." "Worse ?" "Yes, because he did not fail in doing them, as he did when he tried to kill you." "But what must such a man be ?" cried Marcello, suddenly breaking out in anger.

"What must his life have been in all the years before my mother married him ?" "He was a kind of adventurer in South America.