But perhaps you would not mind waiting here for a minute or two, for if we all go in together and she has no word of our coming she may be alarmed.

But hush! what is that ?" He held up the lantern, and his hand shook until the circles of light flickered and wavered all round us.

Miss Morstan seized my wrist, and we all stood with thumping hearts, straining our ears.

From the great black house there sounded through the silent night the saddest and most pitiful of sounds,--the shrill, broken whimpering of a frightened woman.
"It is Mrs.Bernstone," said Sholto.

"She is the only woman in the house.