"Why, Joe," she said, "I never would have thought, with all the horrible sights you see, that anything could upset you like that." "This isn't like anything there's ever been before," he said.

"And then--then--oh, Mrs.Bunting, 'twas I that discovered the piece of paper this time." "Then it is true," she cried eagerly.

"It is The Avenger's bit of paper! Bunting always said it was.

He never believed in that practical joker." "I did," said Chandler reluctantly.

"You see, there are some queer fellows even--even--" (he lowered his voice, and looked round him as if the walls had ears)--"even in the Force, Mrs.Bunting, and these murders have fair got on our nerves." "No, never!" she said.