she let it fall open of itself. She repeated this two or three times. \"Yet I should say that it has been consulted recently,\" she said quietly, \"and more than once. See! It opens of itself on page 425.\"
We looked over her shoulder, he on one side, I on the other, and there we saw staring at us from the page a chapter heading: XXI—ACONITINE.
It gave me a horrid shock; Henry Varick, too. He stepped back, his face working spasmodically.
she let it fall open of itself. She repeated this two or three times. \"Yet I should say that it has been consulted recently,\" she said quietly, \"and more than once. See! It opens of itself on page 425.\"
We looked over her shoulder, he on one side, I on the other, and there we saw staring at us from the page a chapter heading: XXI—ACONITINE.
It gave me a horrid shock; Henry Varick, too. He stepped back, his face working spasmodically.
