Chapter 76

There was something in his manner of emphasizing the word “peculiar,” which caused me to shudder, without knowing why. “No, nothing _peculiar_,” I said; “nothing more, at least, than we both saw stated in the paper.” “The ‘Gazette,’” he replied, “has not entered, I fear, into the unusual horror of the thing. But dismiss the idle opinions of this print. It appears to me that this mystery is considered insoluble, for the very reason which should cause it to be regarded as easy of solution—I mean for the _outre_ chara…