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II As Seen By Detective Sweetwater | Anna Katharine Green | |
X A Difference Of Opinion |
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Mr. Brotherson bowed. "I have finished," said he. "I shall have nothing more to say on the subject." And he drew himself up in expectation of the dismissal he evidently thought pending. But the coroner was not done with him by any means. He had a theory in regard to this lamentable suicide which he hoped to establish by this man's testimony, and, in pursuit of this plan, he not only motioned to Mr. Brotherson to reseat himself, but began at once to open a fresh line of examination by saying: "You will pardon me, if I press this matter. I have been given to understand that notwithstanding your break with Miss Challoner, you have kept up your visits to the Clermont and were even on the spot at the time of her death." "On the spot?" "In the hotel, I mean." "There you are right; I was in the hotel." "At the time of her death?" "Very near the time. I remember hearing some disturbance in the lobby behind me, just as I was passing out at the Broadway entrance." "You did, and did not return?" "Why should I return? I am not a man of much curiosity. There was no reason why I should connect a sudden alarm in the lobby of the Clermont with any cause of special interest to myself." This was so true and the look which accompanied the words was so frank that the coroner hesitated a moment before he said: |
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