Once I was almost moved to call up Belknap- Jackson, so intolerable was the menacing uncertainty; but this I knew bordered on hysteria, and I restrained the impulse with an iron will. "Ruggles of Red Gap" by Harry Leon Wilson

" And speaking of Paul Valmain," he went on, a menacing note creeping into his tones, " I have been talking to Hector again this afternoon about that night- the night that Valmain said he saw you enter the house." "The Belovéd Traitor" by Frank L. Packard