For," he went on, giving them a knowing look, "there's a bigger mystery in this affair than any one of us has any conception of, and the more we can find out the sooner it'll be solved.

And I'll say this to you young fellows: the press can do more than the police.

There's a hint for you!" Then he led me off, and we got into the trap in which he and I had driven out from Berwick, and as soon as we had started homeward he fell into a brown study and continued in it until we were in sight of the town.
"Hugh, my lad!" he suddenly exclaimed, at last starting out of his reverie.

"I'd give a good deal if I could see daylight in this affair! I've had two-and-twenty years' experience of the law, and I've known some queer matters, and some dark matters, and some ugly matters in my time; but hang me if I ever knew one that promises to be as ugly and as dark and as queer as this does--that's a fact!" "You're thinking it's all that, Mr.Lindsey ?" I asked, knowing him as I did to be an uncommonly sharp man.
"I'm thinking there's more than meets the eye," he answered.

"Bloody murder we know there is--maybe there'll be more, or maybe there has been more already.