I think I will kill him first, but after that I shall surely die.

As for Cousin Eugenie, I do not know." Her level matter-of-fact tone seemed to Dickson most shocking, for he could not treat it as mere melodrama.

It carried a horrid conviction.
"We must get you out of this at once," he declared.
"I cannot leave.

I will tell you why.

When I came to this country I appointed one to meet me here.