5/9/2023 0 Comments The leavenworth case“What is the matter? You have no bad news to tell, I hope.” Our office a young man whose whole appearance was so indicative of hasteĪnd agitation that I involuntarily rose at his approach and impetuously I had been a junior partner in the firm of Veeley, Carr & Raymond,Īttorneys and counsellors at law, for about a year, when one morning, in “At the sight of his face, the man in our arms quivered, shrieked, and gave one bound that would have overturned Mr. “I crawled up on to the ledge of the slanting roof last night. “I could not prevent a feeling of sickly apprehension from seizing me as I turned towards the silent figure stretched so near” was fumbling with the waist of her dress in a way to convince me she had something concealed there which she was anxious to dispose of” “Her whole appearance was so startling, so extraordinary, that I held my breath in surprise” “Pausing only long enough on the threshold to compose myself for the interview, I lifted my hand to knock” “What was my astonishment to come upon Miss Eleanore Leavenworth standing at the side of her uncle’s bed, with his pistol in her hand” “I did not go, but stood watching the firelight flicker on her black dress”
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