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I As Seen By Two Strangers | Anna Katharine Green | |
II "I Know The Man" |
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I was still struggling with these fancies when the door opened, and George came in. There was news in his face as I rushed to meet him. "Tell me - tell," I begged. He tried to smile at my eagerness, but the attempt was ghastly. "I've been listening and looking," said he, "and this is all I have learned. Miss Challoner died, not from a stroke or from disease of any kind, but from a wound reaching the heart. No one saw the attack, or even the approach or departure of the person inflicting this wound. If she was killed by a pistol-shot, it was at a distance, and almost over the heads of the persons sitting at the table we saw there. But the doctors shake their heads at the word pistol-shot, though they refuse to explain themselves or to express any opinion till the wound has been probed. This they are going to do at once, and when that question is decided, I may feel it my duty to speak and may ask you to support my story." "I will tell what I saw," said I. "Very good. That is all that will be required. We are strangers to the parties concerned, and only speak from a sense of justice. It may be that our story will make no impression, and that we shall be dismissed with but few thanks. But that is nothing to us. If the woman has been murdered, he is the murderer. With such a conviction in my mind, there can be no doubt as to my duty." "We can never make them understand how he looked." "No. I don't expect to." "Or his manner as he fled." |
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