Will grasped his hand, calling out: "What news?
"News ?" echoed Godfrey, in a voice of no good omen.

"Haven't you heard ?" "Heard what ?" "But your telegram--?
Wasn't that what it meant ?" "What do _you_ mean ?" cried Will.

"Speak, man! I've been abroad for a week.

I know nothing; I telegraphed because I wanted to see you, that was all." "Confound it! I hoped you knew the worst.

Strangwyn is dead." "He's dead?
Well, isn't that what we've been waiting for ?" "Not the old man," groaned Sherwood, "not the old man.