The letter 'e' in the word 'clear' terminates in a sprawling dash and a jab from the nib which has almost pierced the paper.

Could the unexpected appearance of his daughter have startled him in that fashion?
It rather suggests that somebody sprang on him unawares, surprising him so much that he almost stuck the pen through the paper." "Might not that have been his daughter ?" "Women scratch like cats when they use violence, but they do not spring like tigers.

I have been examining those marks on Robert Turold's arm again, and I have come to the conclusion that they were made by somebody in a violent passion." "I have the photographs here," said Dawfield, rummaging in a drawer.

"They do not help us at all.

There are no finger-prints--nothing but blurs." Barrant glanced at the photographs and pushed them aside.
"I have been thinking a lot about those marks," he said.