Chapter 20

He waited a little while, and then said sharply, "The letter and the money!" Exsome obeyed; and then he found his voice. "Is that all you want?" he asked huskily. The Ringer shook his head. "I want something more. I've been looking up your cases. I don't suppose you ever think of them--they're not nice, are they? Do you remember that unfortunate lady who was found with her head in a gas oven? And the girl who walked into a pond and stayed there? And that elderly clergyman who went a little wrong in his head after y…