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One Day In Rangoon |
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"Empty!" "The window was open, and the bird flown! Oh! it was not so simple a flight--as you would realize if you knew the place. The street, which the window overlooked, was bounded by a blank wall, on the opposite side, for thirty or forty yards along; and as we had been having heavy rains, it was full of glutinous mud. Furthermore, the boy whom I had left in charge had been sitting in the doorway immediately below the office window watching for my return ever since his last visit to the room above . . ." "She must have bribed him," I said bitterly--"or corrupted him with her infernal blandishments." "I'll swear she did not," rapped Smith decisively. "I know my man, and I'll swear she did not. There were no marks in the mud of the road to show that a ladder had been placed there; moreover, nothing of the kind could have been attempted whilst the boy was sitting in the doorway; that was evident. In short, she did not descend into the roadway and did not come out by the door . . ." "Was there a gallery outside the window?" "No; it was impossible to climb to right or left of the window or up on to the roof. I convinced myself of that." "But, my dear man!" I cried, "you are eliminating every natural mode of egress! Nothing remains but flight." "I am aware, Petrie, that nothing remains but flight; in other words I have never to this day understood how she quitted the room. I only know that she did." "And then?" |
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