You were quite right, from your point of view, to kill him.

And, as I say, you could afford to be rather reckless.

You had arranged that when the news of his murder came to Scotland Yard you yourself would be on hand to conduct the search for the guilty man.

A happy situation, was it not ?" "It seemed so at the time," admitted Bray; and at last I thought I detected a note of bitterness in his voice.
"I'm very sorry--really," said Hughes.

"To-day, or to-morrow at the latest, England will enter the war.