The Secret of Lonesome Cove

the glare of a pair of eyes outside the nearest window. The eyes were fixed on his own. Thei

en

swer

the artist a

muffled and abstrac

e for a

sound nor movement

the window is trying to hypnotiz

h face to the ceiling, eyes closed, and heels on the raised end. His lips moved faintly. Alarmed lest the heat had been too much for him, Sedgwick bent over the upturned face. From the

hing his shoulder free. "Go a

ut. Look at this face of a cigar-stor

ven't yet found out. He favored me with his regard outside. And he had some dealings with

l a bustle from without warned him that the crowd was returning. Bei

ing back?

n its w

n the house wher

he sheriff and the doc. They had that b

to its supporting sawhorses. The meager physician was visibly at the fag end of his self-cont

to be looked at. Nobody had seen it since last night. We've fixed it up

k for good measure, as he said. The look was a productive one. No sooner had it fallen on the face

n! What'

at?" growl

s right cheek. It wasn't there w

emanded the sheriff savagely. "You want t

eyes had been fixed upon Kent, saw a curious expression flicker and fade across the long-jawed face. It was exactly the expre

s eyes ain

ixing it in his right eye. He leaned over the body to look into the face, and his head jerked back the merest trifle. Bending lowe

t the unknown dead. His monocle, which had dropped from his eye as he turned from the coffin, dangled against his hand. Chancing to look down at it, Sedgwic

s a powerful m

or identify the deceased?" he droned, and, without waiting for a

ing physician, "we don't need any jury

rom his reverie, Chester Kent had leisurel

ed!" gasped th

you must know, if y

s plenty of testimony without that. We've heard the witnesses

washed ashore

crowd. "How do you figu

moth. Half an hour in the water would have soaked the cocoon

rating get t

e beach. It was an old half-rotted affair su

id the old seaman

, was that grating large enough t

mite heavier than the water. I should

al pounds of clothing, a

N

soaked, and handcuffs weigh

ng, that got pounded loose on the beach and washed

of you have seen drowned bodies. Did any one ever see an expression of

d a voice fro

" shouted somebo

oom. The sheriff silenced it with a stentorian voice. "

th. What

troke. "Look out it don't lead you where you won't want to

"The body, already dead, was dragged down and soaked in the sea, and th

on shore, and presumably by

oman shrilly. "Bloody mu

half-Indian, half-negro face alight with fury, stood there