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And this circumstance gives us a clue to the age of the different monuments. The custom of bordering the main approaches of the city with sepulchral monuments was, in all likelihood, derived from the Etruscans, to whom the Romans owed many of their institutions. These monuments were usually structures of great beauty and elegance.
I HAVE seen you, or THOUGHT I saw you before. It was that which brought me here, that which made me follow Mrs. Barker my only clue to you to the door of that convent. That night, in the hollow, I saw a profile at the lighted window, which I thought was yours." "I never was near the window," said the young girl quickly. "It must have been Mrs. Barker." "I know that now," returned Key.
"Take care of it," said Ayscough laconically. "Well you haven't found any papers, documents, or anything of that sort, that give any clue?" "There's a lot of stuff there," answered the man in charge, pointing to a pile of books and papers on the table, "but it seems to be chiefly exercises and that sort of thing. I'll look through it myself, later."
Williams good-day, feeling sure that Nelly's conduct had been misrepresented, an opinion shared by Stella, who had taken a strong dislike to the woman's grim demeanour and spiteful tone, and very sorry for having lost the only clue to her protegée once more. A Friendship.
"Any one of them may be the man you are looking for, only circumstances indicate one in particular. You are satisfied that you have got the line. I could not confidently say that you have, unless I had been working the case myself, and had followed up every clue throughout." Hartley got up and paced the room, his hands deep in the pockets of his dinner jacket.
If they believed the girl knew where the jewel had disappeared to, they would stop at nothing to force a confession from her; Desmond was convinced of that. But what had become of the trio? In vain he cast about him for a clue.
Nor could I reveal the fact of my mysterious interview with him, or tell his name, without giving a clue to the truth of my own existence, and the discovery of all I had sworn so binding an oath ever to conceal. Thou sawest him also but, alas! with other thoughts." "Madman that I have been!" exclaimed the witchfinder. "Or is it now that I am mad? Am I not raving? Is not all this insane delusion?
His cottage was searched; but he also had fled. The trace of cart-wheels by the gate of Maltravers gave a faint clue to pursuit; and after an active search of some days, persons answering to the description of the suspected burglars with a young female in their company were tracked to a small inn, notorious as a resort for smugglers, by the sea-coast.
Yet if only one knew about the spoons, that one must also have some idea that these spoons formed the clue which attached him to the crime of the twenty-third, in which case he was little likely to divulge what he knew to an entire stranger.
"Now, your father may have heard of some new clue about you," continued Joe's chum, "and he may have gone to hunt that up," which was true enough, for with the warning that he was likely to be arrested as a criminal, there may have come to Mr. Duncan some information about his missing children. "But in that case," asked Joe, "why didn't he leave some word as to where he was going?"
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