"Say no more I will go." And, sitting down, I despatched a hurried message to Mr. "I don't know," he finally remarked, a slight frown testifying to the fact that he was not altogether pleased with the turn affairs were taking. Without seeming to wander from my face, its pupil had suddenly dilated till it appeared to embrace my whole person with its scope. The expression of the secretary's eye stopped me. "I am a stranger to the ladies," was my hesitating reply, "but if I can be of any assistance to them, my respect for their uncle is such -"
Veeley was their uncle's best friend, they naturally sent me for him but he being absent I am at a loss what to do or where to go." Leavenworth's nieces and as an inquest is to be held there to-day it is deemed proper for them to have some one present capable of advising them. "They are all alone," he continued in a low business-like way I afterwards found to be inseparable from the man "the Misses Leavenworth, I mean-Mr. It was a dreadful shock," he went on, "especially to the ladies." Leavenworth's private secretary," he explained, "and live in the family. "Shot! murdered!" I could scarcely believe my ears.
"Yes, murdered shot through the head by some unknown person while sitting at his library table." Leavenworth was an old client of our firm, to say nothing of his being the particular friend of Mr. Leavenworth!" I exclaimed, falling back a step. "To you, sir?" he repeated, turning a very cold but steady eye on mine then, seeming to be satisfied with his scrutiny, continued, "There is no reason why I should n't my business is no secret.
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