Ragobah

Ragobah alone, so far as we know, has a motive for the murder.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

My inquiries in all the Indian cities proved fruitless, and in many instances, I was informed that Ragobah had instituted a search for the same man.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

If you had known it was our friend Ragobah, you would doubtless have felt it imperative that I should know of it, -- so I conclude from your silence that you did not discover his identity.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

He strove to reassure himself with the thought that she might, in order to mislead Ragobah, have spoken the name of a harmless drug while she wrote down that of a poisonous one.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

The net of circumstantial evidence wound around Ragobah seemed to be such as to leave no possibility of escape, and yet, the very first effort made to draw it tighter about him had resulted in his walking, with the utmost ease, right through its meshes!

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

I think there but one passion strong enough in Ragobah to make plain his hunt like dog for last twenty year.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

Perhaps that is so, but, let me assure you, when I saw Ragobah, for it was he, glide behind that tree, and reflected how capable he was of every kind of treachery, I wouldn't have parted with that cane for its weight in gold.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

I should have done so, even though I had known Ragobah meant to betray me.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

You will immediately appreciate that nearly all of the evidence which we secured against Ragobah was directed against him as the assassin, and is of little or no use to prove his complicity in an affair committed by another.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

As you know, I am not wont to draw conclusions until all the evidence is in, but I must confess that, looking at the whole matter from start to finish, there seems to have fallen upon Ragobah a net of circumstantial evidence so strong, and with a mesh of detail so minute, that it does not seem possible a mosquito could escape from it.

The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy