The Old Man in the Corner

“‘But how do you account for Kershaw knowing all your movements?’ still persisted his Honour, ‘and his knowing the exact […]

“‘Well, your Honour,’ added the prisoner with noble frankness, ‘it was my first day in the old country. The Old

“A fresh mystery had cropped up. The Old Man in the Corner 「新たな謎が見つかりました」 Who, then, had made the assignation with

“I assure you,” he resumed at last, “that at that very moment the whole mystery was, to me, as clear

“Oddly enough he seemed to be a very absent-minded sort of person, for on this second occasion, no sooner had

“As for me,” added the man in the corner, with that strange mixture of nervousness and self-complacency which had set

“Even at this moment, when the Siberian millionaire’s neck literally and metaphorically hung in the balance, an expectant titter went

“Francis Smethurst was rousing himself from his apathy; he whispered to his lawyer, who nodded with a bland smile of

“The next witness, Constable Thomas Taylor, had noticed a shabbily dressed individual, with shaggy hair and beard, loafing about the

“The prosecution insisted most strongly upon the hour when the stranger in the fur coat, having seen to his luggage,