Later, so the whispers said, he sometimes went down again, alone, to revisit the victims.

"Yes," said the judge in a voice that was barely a whisper.

He was, the whisper said, inside the huge black box that had fallen astride the river.

The whisper said, 'The police found a note she left for her new lover.'

The whispers said the trap was being set at Buckie.

He met her eyes and in a low whisper said, "I understand."

"I am your trash," said the stubborn whisper from the darkness.

Only a whisper of smoke said the coals had ever burned.

"Good to see you on the job," said the whisper behind Proteus.

When those same whispers said that St. John's would be looking for a successor any time now?