The triggers had been wired together, so as to make the simultaneous discharge more destructive.
The country policeman was unnerved and troubled by the tremendous responsibility which had come so suddenly upon him.

"We will touch nothing until my superiors arrive," he said in a hushed voice, staring in horror at the dreadful head.
"Nothing has been touched up to now," said Cecil Barker.

"I'll answer for that.

You see it all exactly as I found it." "When was that ?" The sergeant had drawn out his notebook.
"It was just half-past eleven.

I had not begun to undress, and I was sitting by the fire in my bedroom when I heard the report.