The people of the neighborhood, dazed at first, had gossiped about it in the street, from one threshold to another. There have been a great number of undiscovered crimes, I argued.ĭistant voices were heard under the trees, a confused sound, the noise of an approaching crowd, for Mederic had, in the course of his rounds, carried the news from door to door. But they were not nightmare-they were not nightmares. One touch of unreality, he said, in the low tone of a man who speaks to himself, and they would have been nightmares. Fortunehoweverarranged the matter better than they expectedfor all Sancho did wato fling himself on himaster The two priests, the chorister, and the beadle came, and said and did as much as could be expected for seventy francs in an age when religion cannot afford to say prayers for nothing.Ĭompanionhad come up to where he lay but the processionistseeing them come runningand with them the officerof the Brotherhood with their crossbowsapprehended mischiefand clustering round the imageraised their hoodsand grasped their scourgesathe priestdid their tapersand awaited the attackresolved to defend themselveand even to take the offensive against their assailantif they could. I fear that I shall never see Marie again, The remarkable acumen by which Inspector MacKinnon deduced from the smell of paint that some other smell, that of gas, for example, might be concealedthe bold deduction that the strong-room might also be the death-chamber, and the subsequent inquiry which led to the discovery of the bodies in a disused well, cleverly concealed by a dog-kennel, should live in the history of crime as a standing example of the intelligence of our professional detectives.
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