He was stabbed." "So the journals said; with a bowie!" "No, not with a bowie," corrected Lucian, "but with some long, sharp instrument." "A dagger ?" suggested Clyne.
"I should be even more precise," said Denzil slowly.

"I should say a stiletto--an Italian stiletto." "A stiletto!" gasped Mrs.Vrain, whose delicate pink colour had faded to a chalky white.

"Oh!--oh! I--I--" and she fainted forthwith..