And whether to astonish him or to encourage him, or perhaps from sheer vanity and as something to boast of, all of a sudden she threw a bombshell.

" Dane turned to the man who had brought this bombshell into their midst.

" Just about the hour she was setting down this first result of her instinct's warning against the danger signal she had seen in Hiram Ranger's manner, he was delivering a bombshell.

At first there was an entire lack of comprehension; at the second reading a look of shocked understanding, and, bringing his fist down upon his knee, he exclaimed, "And Agnes was going to fling this bombshell straight at that poor thing!"

He had a fancy to wrap up a bombshell in the will.