What can it mean?
Have you any theory ?" "Absolutely none; I am groping in the dark, without a single clew.

All I know is that Coombs is a big ruffian, but too cowardly to commit murder.

The Creole might, and I would n't trust Sallie with a knife on a dark night, but, in my judgment, there are others involved about whom we know nothing." "You mean there is a band?
that we have stumbled into a rendezvous of outlaws ?" "I suspicion so.

This plantation has been practically abandoned for years.

Even when the Judge was alive he lived in town, and could get no negroes to work out here because they believed the place was haunted.