I turned him over, and examined the wound.

Then I went out and found Coombs, who sleeps in one of the negro cabins.

He sneered at my discovery, but finally accompanied me back to the house.

I could not have been absent to exceed thirty minutes, and yet, when we opened the door of that rear room, the body had disappeared--vanished completely.

Not a thing remained to tell of any tragedy." "It had been dragged into some other room; hidden away in some closet.
The woman did it." "That was my thought at first.