The Twin Detectives; or, The Robbers of the Tomb — page 38: what you’re looking at

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THE TWIN DETECTIVES. 29 box of matches from his pocket, then extinguished the candle. A strange, bluish, unearthly ight shone from the black. trunk. It lit up the cellar. The phosphorescent emanation of a dead body ! The mystery was solved—in this chest lay the body of the missing Earl of Cuthbert ! This house contained the robbers of the tomb. - Brierly closed the trunk and lit his candle. He then locked the chest and scattered a handful of dust on its lid. No one must suspect that it had been disturbred. The ghouls must not know that their frightful secret had been discovered. ‘They must be taken unawares. The corpse-light that revealed the resting-place of the desecrated dead shone no more when the chest was closed, but Brierly left the cellar rapidly, for strong though his nerves were, he felt a cold sensation of horror. CHAPTER IV. ‘REVENGE IS SWEET.” In a low, veranda surrounded cottage on Beech Tree road, - St. John’s Wood, lived a lady known to her domestics as «< Mrs. Mordred.” She had no acquaintances, save one man who came to see her occasionally. | She was not a young woman, but possessed the remains of great beauty.. She was cold and stern in her manner, never seeming happy or at rest. She appeared to have ample means, and lived in comfort, though not in ostentatious luxury, as many of her neigh- bors did. GComicbooks (E(@) L a)