I had permitted him to believe that she was but a chance acquaintance, in whom I felt little interest, and he would consequently anticipate no serious protest from me.

Even if I did intervene he possessed the power to render me helpless.

And he was Judge Henley's son, or, at least, so these men believed who had been associated with him for years.

The situation grew more and more complicated; it was no longer merely her word against his, and yet I could not doubt the truth of any statement she had made to me.

There was a mystery here unexplained, involving the dead, and strangely complicating the lives of the living.
I paced the deck undisturbed, struggling vainly to evolve some solution.