THE CLUB AND THE BULLET
"He is dead, and by my hand. It were better that I were
dead myself, for the guilty wretch I am."
ADVENTURES OF SEXTON BLAKE
Hour after hour Mr. Parker sat waiting for his friend's return. Again and again he went over the Riddlesdale Case, checking his notes here, amplifying them there, involving his tired brain in speculations of the most fantastic kind. He wandered about the room, taking down here and there a book from the shelves, strumming a few unskilful bars upon the piano, glancing through the weeklies, fidgeting restlessly. At length he selected a volume from the criminological section of the bookshelves, and forced himself to read with attention that most fascinating and dramatic of poison trials--the Seddon Case. Gradually the mystery gripped him, as i
