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"But he wears no hat!" "He never got it off the peg! Just as he reached up to take it, he gave a most frightful scream, and turned around like lightning as though some one had attacked him from behind!" "There was no one else in the hall?" "No one at all. I was standing down there outside the dining-room just by the stairs, but he didn't turn in my direction, he turned and looked right behind him--where there was no one--nothing. His cries were frightful." Burke's voice broke, and he shuddered feverishly. "Then he made a rush for the front door. It seemed as though he had not seen me. He stood there screaming; but, before I could reach him, he fell. . . ." Nayland Smith fixed a piercing gaze upon Burke. "Is that all you know?" he demanded slowly. "As God is my judge, sir, that's all I know, and all I saw. There was no living thing near him when he met his death." "We shall see," muttered Smith. He turned to me--"What killed him?" he asked, shortly. "Apparently, a minute wound on the left wrist," I replied, and, stooping, I raised the already cold hand in mine. A tiny, inflamed wound showed on the wrist; and a certain puffiness was becoming observable in the injured hand and arm. Smith bent down and drew a quick, sibilant breath. "You know what this is, Petrie?" he cried. "Certainly. It was too late to employ a ligature and useless to inject ammonia. Death was practically instantaneous. His heart . . ." There came a loud knocking and ringing. "Carter!" cried Smith, turning to the detective, open that door to no one--no one. Explain who I am--" |
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