Why should he have sought to kill me?" "It is all mystery," I admitted, "and too deep for me.

This was the only solution of the mystery which seemed probable, and yet this did not wholly satisfy my mind.

Indeed the stillness irritated me with its mystery, rendered me reckless to penetrate its meaning.

The mystery of the night and ocean was in her motionless posture.

Not a head peered at us over the rail; in silent mystery it seemed to fly straight at us like a great bird, sweeping through water and sky.

It seemed to me the heave of water beneath our keel grew heavier, the fog more dense, the mystery more profound.

Then he lost his path another time, missed entirely the village of Maubert, where he had thought to find a conveyance, or at least a guide, and in the silver and purple mystery of a perfect moonlight night found himself looking down from a hilltop upon Montpellier-le-Vieux.

In truth, he didn't know what to think, and the wildest flights of an imagination provoked by this mystery were tame and timid in contrast with the truth as he was later to learn it.

"But I think you're quite as much of a mystery as you pretend to see in me.

" "Unfortunately for Duchemin, that remains a mystery.

What has happened to de Lorgnes?" "It is in all the evening newspapersthe murder mystery of the Lyons rapide.

"If you will tell me that, there will be no more mystery in this sad affair.

"What did you have your sleeve rolled up for when your arm was shot?" I made plain to him the mystery of the whole sleeve.

" No one answered, for here was another mystery.

The girls found him a source of much amusement, and relieved their own disappointment at finding the "Wegg Mystery" a pricked bubble by getting McNutt excited over many sly suggestions of hidden crimes.

In a few moments Louise had engaged the agent in a spirited discussion of the absorbing "mystery" and so occupied his attention that he paid no heed to the direction they had taken.

" "Also," whispered Louise to her cousins, rather disconsolately, "it explains the last shred of mystery about the Wegg case.

"I have known him as one esteemed by his fellowsa man skilful in his craft, and long practised in the mystery of the Lagunes.

" "If only your theory's right, then,if he hasn't dared yet to throw suspicion on du Laurier, and if the loss of that letter-case with its contents is as much of a mystery to him as it is to us, we have a little time before us still: we're comparatively safe for a few hours.

And if we come to the heart of the mystery, perhaps we should say that the truly eloquent man is a sane man with power to communicate his sanity.

It was a mystery she could not penetrate.

Two days passed with no visible change; but on the third day the strange gasteropod unfolded both himself and the mystery.

The origin of these superstitions cannot be traced; they are shrouded in impenetrable mystery.

My fellow citizens, today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.

How I got as far as I did remains a mystery to me to this day.