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, aN
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