Francis Worcester Doughty

“ Both Mat and Helen understood that to Shadow they owed their deliverance, and both were deeply grateful and could not thank him enough.
After a while I said plainly that there was a mystery underlying all this which I should like to have explained.
"You shall hear the explanation," said Shadow. "I am not what I seem; I am not a man; I am Nellie Millbank, to whom you were kind enough—although a stranger—to lend the money with which to decently inter the body of her murdered lover." ”

“ I suspected him rightly, after many previous failures, threw myself in his way in the character of a thing which I care not to name, and when he was in liquor he told me all. He convicted himself out of his own mouth. ”

“ Late in the afternoon Mrs. Morris, who had been sent for, put in an appearance, having been found and sent here.
A happier woman never drew the breath of life than she was when she was enabled to clasp both her loved ones to her heart.
Nellie Millbank and I drew a little apart, that the others might have the first few minutes of meeting to themselves.
In response to a question of mine as to how she had gathered up all the threads of the tangled skein, she replied:
"It was through McGinnis. He was the tool of Brown, the abductor of Helen, as well as the murderer of my lost one. ”