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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: on the handle.
I seemed to see a network closing around my boy, innocent as I
knew he was. The revolver--I am afraid of them, but anxiety gave
me courage to look through the barrel--the revolver had still two
bullets in it. I could only breathe a prayer of thankfulness
that I had found the revolver before any sharp-eyed detective had
come around.
I decided to keep what clues I had, the cuff-link, the golf-stick
and the revolver, in a secure place until I could see some reason
for displaying them. The cuff-link had been dropped into a
little filigree box on my toilet table. I opened the box and
The Circular Staircase |
