CHAPTER VII

THE CLUB AND THE BULLET "_He is dead, and by my hand. It were better that I were_ _dead myself, for the guilty wretch I am_." ADVENTURES OF SEXTON BLAKE Hour after hour Mr. Parker sat waiting for his friend's return. Again and again he went over the Riddlesdale Case, checking his notes here, amplifying them there, involving his tired brain in speculations of the most fantastic kind. He wandered about the room, taking down here and there a book from the she…