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II As Seen By Detective Sweetwater | Anna Katharine Green | |
XIX The Danger Moment |
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"I believe you to have taken every advantage posible to spy upon your mistress. I believe that, yes." "From interest, monsieur, from great interest." "Self-interest." "As monsieur pleases. But it was strange, ver strange for a grande dame like that to write letters - sheets on sheets - and then not send them, nevaire. I dreamed of those letters - I could not help it, no; and when she died so quick - with no word for any one, no word at all, I thought of those writings so secret, so of the heart, and when no one noticed - or thought about this box, or - or the key she kept shut tight, oh, always tight in her leetle gold purse, I - Monsieur, do you want to see those letters?" asked the girl, with a gulp. Evidently his appearance frightened her - or had her acting reached this point of extreme finish? "I had nevaire the chance to put them back. And - and they belong to monsieur. They are his - all his - and so beautiful! Ah, just like poetry." "I don't consider them mine. I haven't a particle of confidence in you or in your story. You are a thief - self-convicted; or you're an agent of the police whose motives I neither understand nor care to investigate. Take up your bag and go. I haven't a cent's worth of interest in its contents." |
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