H. A. Lamb

“ Matthew Burnie was very old, and the old are not easily stirred.
“You’ll take lunch with us, sir?” Stuart offered, feeling ill at ease in the presence of the man he had tried to shoot. Matthew Burnie considered his words, and the hair about his mouth moved in what might have been a smile. ”

“ His speech was straightforward and precise and the phrases he used were such as my father might have employed. He seemed to have little desire to speak. Yet when we questioned him he responded readily. ”