The Terror

by Edgar Wallace

  ‘I was talking about your lisp just now, doctor. I’ve never noticed it before,’ said Mason again.

  ‘I haven’t a lisp’—Dr Marford stretched himself luxuriously in his chair—‘and I haven’t any impediment of speech. But, you see, I recognise inevitabilities, and for the last hour and a half I have had in my mouth—it is now between my teeth—a little glass phial of cyanide of potassium—’

  Three detectives flung themselves upon him, but it was too late. He shuddered slightly; a spasm of pain passed over his face, and he stiffened. There was no other movement.

  Mason looked at him in admiration.

  ‘Game, eh?’ he said huskily. ‘By God, how game!’

  He turned abruptly and walked across to the charge-room, and came, bare-headed, into the street, to breathe the sweet air of morning.

  The day was breaking.

  THE END

  THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB

  LIST OF TITLES

  THE PERFECT CRIME • ISRAEL ZANGWILL

  CALLED BACK • HUGH CONWAY

  THE MYSTERY OF THE SKELETON KEY

  BERNARD CAPES

  THE GRELL MYSTERY • FRANK FROËST

  DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE • R. L. STEVENSON

  THE RASP • PHILIP MACDONALD

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