It is fastened in its sheath by a hidden spring, and he knew exactly how to open it.

Any person not accustomed to such weapons would endeavour to pull it out by main force." Brett did not press Mrs.Eastham to pursue her theory.

It was plain that she regarded the Italian as a man who might conceivably be the murderer of his wife's brother.

This was enough for feminine logic.
Hume, too, shared the same belief, and had not scrupled to express it openly.
There were, it was true, reasons in plenty, why Capella should have committed this terrible deed.

He was, presumably, affianced to Margaret at the time.