Just that and no more.
In his fast-clenched hand was found an envelope addressed to Mr. John Harkaway, and on a closer examination a pin's point was seen sticking through the paper.
This had just pricked the messenger's hand.
So slightly that, had not the tiny wound turned slightly blue, it would have entirely escaped notice.
Jack was now aware that he had in Turkey a deadly enemy, but who he was he could not yet tell.
When the men of skill assembled around the body, they were puzzled to assign a cause of death until one of them suggested it was apoplexy. So apoplexy it was unanimously set down for.
There was no more fuss made.
The man was only a poor devil of a Circassian, who got a precarious livelihood as a public messenger. So they
"Rattled his bones