"Come in."
Instantly after, he sees the door thrown open, and a form filling up its
outlines--the stalwart figure of a Mississippi sheriff; who, as he
stands upon the threshold, says, in firm voice, with tone of legal
authority:
"Richard Darke, I arrest you!"
"For what?" mechanically demands the culprit, shivering in his shirt.
"_For the murder of Charles Clancy_!"