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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of the Mystery of the Yellow Room. This
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  Speaker 1: The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston le Roux,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, in which we begin not to understand. It
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  Speaker 1: is not without a certain emotion that I begin to
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  Speaker 1: recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille down to
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  Speaker 1: the present time. He had so firmly opposed my doing
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  Speaker 1: it that I had come to despair of ever publishing
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  Speaker 1: the most curious of police stories of the past fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: I had even imagined that the public would never know
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  Speaker 1: the whole truth of the prodigious case known as that
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  Speaker 1: of the Yellow Room, out of which grows so many mysterious,
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  Speaker 1: cruel and sensational dramas with which my friend was so
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  Speaker 1: closely mixed up. If propose of a recent nomination of
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  Speaker 1: the illustrious Dangerson to the grade of Grand Cross of
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  Speaker 1: the Legion of Honor, an evening journal in an article
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  Speaker 1: miserable for its ignorance or audacious for its perfidy had
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  Speaker 1: not resuscitated a terrible adventure of which Joseph Rotabille had
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  Speaker 1: told me he wished to be forever forgotten the Yellow Room.
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  Speaker 1: Who now remembers this affair which caused so much ink
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  Speaker 1: to flow fifteen years ago? Events are so quickly forgotten
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  Speaker 1: in Paris, has not the very name of the Nave trial,
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  Speaker 1: and the tragic history of the death of little Menaldo
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  Speaker 1: passed out of mind. And yet the public attention was
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  Speaker 1: so deeply interested in the details of the trial that
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  Speaker 1: the occurrence of a ministerial crisis was completely unnoticed at
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  Speaker 1: the time. Now, the Yellow Room trial, which preceded that
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  Speaker 1: of the Naves by some years, made far more noise.
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  Speaker 1: The entire world hung for months over this obscure problem,
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  Speaker 1: the most obscure, it seems to me, that has ever
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  Speaker 1: challenged the perspicacity of our police or taxed the conscience
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  Speaker 1: of our judges. The solution of the problem baffled everybody
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  Speaker 1: who tried to find it. It was like a dramatic
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  Speaker 1: rebus of which Old Europe and New America alike became fascinated.
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  Speaker 1: That is, in truth, I am permitted to say, because
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  Speaker 1: there cannot be any author's vanity in all this, since
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  Speaker 1: I do nothing more than transcribe facts on which an
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  Speaker 1: exceptional documentation enables me to throw a new light. That
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  Speaker 1: is because in truth, I do not know that, in
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  Speaker 1: the domain of reality or imagination, one can discover or
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  Speaker 1: recall to mind anything comparable in its mystery with the
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  Speaker 1: natural mystery of the Yellow Room, that which nobody could
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  Speaker 1: find out. Joseph Ultabille, aged eighteen, then a reporter engaged
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  Speaker 1: on a leading journal, succeeded in discovering. But when at
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  Speaker 1: the Assize court he brought in the key to the
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  Speaker 1: whole case, he did not tell the whole truth. He
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  Speaker 1: only allowed so much of it to appear as suffist
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  Speaker 1: to ensure the acquittal of an innocent man. The reasons
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  Speaker 1: which he had for his reticence no longer exists. Better still,
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  Speaker 1: the time has come for my friend to speak out fully.
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  Speaker 1: You are going to know all, and without further preamble,
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  Speaker 1: I am going to place before your eyes the problem
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  Speaker 1: of the Yellow Room as it was placed before the
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  Speaker 1: eye of the entire world. On the day following the
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  Speaker 1: enactment of the drama at the Chateau deu Glandier on
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  Speaker 1: the twenty fifth of October eighteen nineteen two. The following
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  Speaker 1: note appeared in the latest edition of the Tent. A
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  Speaker 1: frightful crime has been committed at the Glandier on the
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  Speaker 1: border of the forest of sanjan Yev above epinice Urge,
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  Speaker 1: at the house of Professor Stangerson. On that night, while
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  Speaker 1: the Master was working in his laboratory, an attempt was
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  Speaker 1: made to assassinate Mademoiselle Stangerson, who was sleeping in a
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  Speaker 1: chamber adjoining this laboratory. The doctors could not answer for
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  Speaker 1: the life of Mademoiselle Stangerson. The impression made on Paris
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  Speaker 1: by this news may be easily imagined. Already, at that
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  Speaker 1: time the learned world was so deeply interested in the
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  Speaker 1: labors of Professor Stangerson and his daughter. These labors, the
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  Speaker 1: first that were attempted in Waigiography, served to open the
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  Speaker 1: way for Monsieur and Madame Curie to the discovery of radium.
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  Speaker 1: It was expected the Professor would shortly read to the
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  Speaker 1: Academy of Sciences a sensational paper on his new theory,
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  Speaker 1: the dissociation of matter, a theory destined to overthrow from
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  Speaker 1: its base the whole of official science, which based itself
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  Speaker 1: on the principle of the conservation of energy. On the
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  Speaker 1: following day, the newspapers were full of the tragedy. The Matter,
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  Speaker 1: among others, published the following article entitled a supernatural crime.
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  Speaker 1: These are the only details, wrote the anonymous writer in
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  Speaker 1: the Matta we have been able to obtain concerning the
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  Speaker 1: crime of the Chateau du Glandier. The state of despair
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  Speaker 1: in which Professor Stangerson is plunged, and the impossibility of
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  Speaker 1: getting any information from the lips of the victim, have
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  Speaker 1: rendered our investigations and those of justice so difficult that
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  Speaker 1: at present we cannot form the least idea of what
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  Speaker 1: has passed in the yellow room, in which Mademoiselle Stangerson,
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  Speaker 1: in her night dress, was found lying on the floor
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  Speaker 1: in the agonies of death. We have at last been
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  Speaker 1: able to interview Daddy Jacques, as he is called in
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  Speaker 1: the country, an old servant in the Stangerson family. That
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  Speaker 1: Dejacques entered the room at the same time as the professor.
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  Speaker 1: This chamber adjoins the laboratory. Laboratory and yellow room are
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  Speaker 1: in a pavilion at the end of the park, about
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  Speaker 1: three hundred meters eight thousand feet from the chateau. It
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  Speaker 1: was half past twelve at night, this honest old man
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  Speaker 1: told us. And I was in the laboratory where Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: Stangerson was still working when the thing happened. I had
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  Speaker 1: been cleaning and putting instruments in order all the evening
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  Speaker 1: and was waiting for me Monsieur Stangerson to go to bed.
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  Speaker 1: Mademoiselle Stangerson had worked with her father up to midnight.
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  Speaker 1: When the twelve strokes of midnight had sounded by the
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  Speaker 1: cuckoo clock in the laboratory, she rose, kissed Missus Stangerson
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  Speaker 1: and bade him good night. To me, she said, bonsoirs
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  Speaker 1: de Jacques. As she passed into the yellow room, we
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  Speaker 1: heard her lock the door and shoot the bolt, so
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  Speaker 1: that I could not help laughing, and said to Monsieur,
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  Speaker 1: there's Mademoiselle double locking herself in. She must be afraid
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  Speaker 1: of the bete bon dieu. Monsieur did not even hear me,
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  Speaker 1: he was so deeply absorbed in what he was doing.
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  Speaker 1: Just then we heard the distant meawing of the cat.
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  Speaker 1: Is that going to keep us awake all night? I
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  Speaker 1: said to myself, for I must tell you, Monsieur that
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  Speaker 1: to the end of October, I live in an attic
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  Speaker 1: up the pavilion over the Yellow Room, so that Mademoiselle
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  Speaker 1: should not be left alone through the night in the
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  Speaker 1: lonely park. It was fancy of Mademoiselle to spend the
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  Speaker 1: fine weather in the pavilion, No doubt she found it
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  Speaker 1: more cheerful than the chateau, and for the four years
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  Speaker 1: it had been built, she had never failed to take
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  Speaker 1: up her lodging there. In the spring, with the return
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  Speaker 1: of winter, Mademoiselle returned to the chateau. For there is
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  Speaker 1: no fireplace in the yellow room. We were staying in
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  Speaker 1: the pavilion then, mister Stangerson and me. We made no noise.
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  Speaker 1: He was seated at his desk, as for me, I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting on a chair, having finished my work, and
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  Speaker 1: looking at him, I said to myself, what a man,
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  Speaker 1: what intelligence, what knowledge? I attached importance to the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we made no noise, for because of that the
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  Speaker 1: assassins certainly thought that we had left the place. And suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: while the cuckoo was sounding the half after midnight, a
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  Speaker 1: desperate clamor broke out in the yellow room. There was
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  Speaker 1: the voice of Mademoiselle crying, murder, murder, help. Immediately afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: revolver shots rang out, and there was a great noise
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  Speaker 1: of tables and furniture being thrown to the ground, as
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  Speaker 1: if in the curse of his struggle, and again the
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  Speaker 1: voice of Mademoiselle calling murder, Help. Papa, Papa, you may
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  Speaker 1: be sure that we quickly sprang up, and that Monsieurs
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  Speaker 1: Stangerson and I threw ourselves upon the door. But alas
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  Speaker 1: it was locked, fast, locked on the inside by the
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  Speaker 1: care of Mademoiselle, as I have told you, With key
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  Speaker 1: and bolt, we tried to force it open, but it
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  Speaker 1: remained firm. Monsieurs Stangerson was like a madman, and truly
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  Speaker 1: it was enough to make him one, for we had
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  Speaker 1: Mademoiselle still calling help. Help. Missus Stangerson showered terrible blows
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  Speaker 1: on the door and wept with rage and sobbered with
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  Speaker 1: despair and helplessness. It was then that I had an inspiration.
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  Speaker 1: The assassin must have entered by the window. I cried,
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  Speaker 1: I will go to the window, and I rushed from
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  Speaker 1: the pavilion and ran like one out of his mind.
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  Speaker 1: The inspiration was that the window of the Yellow room
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  Speaker 1: looks out in such a way that the park wall,
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  Speaker 1: which abets in the pavilion, prevented my at once reaching
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  Speaker 1: the window. To get up to it, one has first
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  Speaker 1: to go out of the park. I ran towards the gate,
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  Speaker 1: and on my way met Bernier and his wife, the
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  Speaker 1: gate keepers who had been attracted by the pistol report
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  Speaker 1: and by our cries. In a few words, I told
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  Speaker 1: them what had happened, and directed the concierge to join
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur Stangerson with all speed, while his wife came with
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  Speaker 1: me to open the park gate. Five minutes later, she
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  Speaker 1: and I were before the window of the Yellow room.
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  Speaker 1: The moon was shining brightly, and I saw clearly that
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  Speaker 1: no one had touched the window. Not only would the
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  Speaker 1: bars that protected intact, but the blinds inside of them
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  Speaker 1: were drawn as I had myself drawn them early in
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  Speaker 1: the evening, as I did every day, though Mademoiselle, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that I was tired from the heavy work I had
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  Speaker 1: been doing, had begged me not to trouble myself, but
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  Speaker 1: leave her to do it. And they were just as
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  Speaker 1: I had left them, fastened with an iron catch on
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  Speaker 1: the inside. The assassin therefore could not have passed either
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  Speaker 1: in or out that way, but neither could I get in.
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  Speaker 1: It was unfortunate enough to turn one's brain. The door
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  Speaker 1: of the room locked on the inside, and the blinds
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  Speaker 1: on the only window also fastened on the inside, and
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  Speaker 1: Mademoiselle still calling for help. No, she had ceased to call.
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  Speaker 1: She was dead, perhaps, but I still heard her father
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  Speaker 1: in the pavilion trying to break down the door with
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  Speaker 1: the conseil. I hurried back to the pavilion. The door,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the furious attempts of Missus Stangerson and
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  Speaker 1: Berniers to burst it open, were still holding firm. But
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  Speaker 1: at length it gave way before our united efforts. And
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  Speaker 1: then what a sight met our eyes. I should tell
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  Speaker 1: you that behind us the concierge held the laboratory lamp,
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  Speaker 1: a powerful lamp that lit the hall chamber. I must
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  Speaker 1: also tell you, monsieur, that the yellow room is a
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  Speaker 1: very small room. Mademoiselle had furnished it with a fairly
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  Speaker 1: large iron bedstead, a small table, a night commode, a
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  Speaker 1: dressing table, and two cheers. By the light of the
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  Speaker 1: big lamp, we saw all at a glance. Mademoiselle, in
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  Speaker 1: her night dress, was lying on the floor in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of the greatest disorder. Tables and chairs had been overthrown,
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  Speaker 1: showing that there had been a violent struggle. Mademoiselle had
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  Speaker 1: certainly been dragged from her bed. She was covered with
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  Speaker 1: blood and had terrible marks of finger nails on her throat,
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  Speaker 1: the flesh of her neck having been almost torn by
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  Speaker 1: the nails. From the wounds on the right temple, a
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  Speaker 1: stream of blood had run down and made a little
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  Speaker 1: pool on the floor. When Missus Stangerson saw his daughter
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  Speaker 1: in that state, he threw himself on his knees beside her,
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  Speaker 1: uttering a cry of despair. He ascertained that she still breathed.
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  Speaker 1: As to us, we searched for the wretch who had
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  Speaker 1: tried to kill our mistress, And I swear to you, monsieur,
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  Speaker 1: that if we had found him, it would have gone
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  Speaker 1: hard with him. But how to explain that he was
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  Speaker 1: not there, that he had already escaped. It passed all imagination.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody under the bed, nobody behind the furniture. All that
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  Speaker 1: we discovered were traces, bloods saint marks of a man's
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  Speaker 1: large hand on the walls, and on the door, a
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  Speaker 1: big handkerchief red with blood without any initials, an old cap,
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  Speaker 1: and many fresh footmarks of a man on the floor,
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  Speaker 1: footmarks of a man with large feet whose bootsaws had
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  Speaker 1: left a sort of sooty impression. How had this man
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  Speaker 1: got away? How had he vanished? Don't forget, monsieur, that
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  Speaker 1: there is no chimney in the yellow room. He could
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  Speaker 1: not have escaped by the door, which is narrow and
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  Speaker 1: on the threshold of which the concierge stood with the
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  Speaker 1: lamp while her husband and I searched for him in
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  Speaker 1: every corner of the little room, where it is impossible
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  Speaker 1: for any one to hide himself. The door, which had
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  Speaker 1: been forced open against the wall, could not conceal anything
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  Speaker 1: behind it, As we assured ourselves by the window still
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  Speaker 1: in every way secured, no flight had been possible. What
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  Speaker 1: then I began to believe in the devil? But we
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  Speaker 1: discovered my revolver on the floor. Yes, my revolver. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that brought me back to the reality. The devil would
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  Speaker 1: not have needed to steal my revolver to kill Mademoiselle.
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  Speaker 1: The man who had been there had first gone up
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  Speaker 1: to my attic and taken my revolver from the drawer
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  Speaker 1: where I kept it. When then ascertained by counting the
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  Speaker 1: carriages that the assassin had fired two shots. Oh, it
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  Speaker 1: was fortunate for me that Monsieur Stangerson was in the
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  Speaker 1: laboratory when the affair took place, and had seen with
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  Speaker 1: his own eyes that I was there with him. For otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: with this business of my revolver, I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: we should have been. I should now be under lock,
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  Speaker 1: and bar Justice wants no more to send a man
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  Speaker 1: to the scaffold. The editor of the matter added to
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  Speaker 1: this interview the following lines. We have, without interrupting him,
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  Speaker 1: allowed Daddy Jacques to recount to us roughly all he
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  Speaker 1: knows about the crime of the Yellow Room. We have
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  Speaker 1: reproduced it in his own words, only sparing the reader
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  Speaker 1: of the continual lamentations with which he garnished his narrative.
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  Speaker 1: It is quite understood, Daddy Jacques, quite understood that you
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  Speaker 1: are very fond of your master's and you want them
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  Speaker 1: to know it and never cease repeating it, especially since
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  Speaker 1: the discovery of your revolver. It is right, and we
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  Speaker 1: see no harm in it. We should have liked to
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  Speaker 1: put some further questions to Daddy Jacques. Jacques Luismusti. But
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  Speaker 1: the inquiry of the examining magistrate, which is being carried
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  Speaker 1: out at the chateau, makes it impossible for us to
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  Speaker 1: gain admission at the Glandier, And as to the oak word,
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  Speaker 1: it is guarded by a wide circle of policemen who
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  Speaker 1: are jealously watching all traces that can lead to the
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  Speaker 1: pavilion and that may perhaps lead to the discovery of
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  Speaker 1: the essay. We have also wished to question the concierges,
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  Speaker 1: but they are invisible. Finally, we have waited any roadside inn,
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  Speaker 1: not far from the gate of the chateau for the
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  Speaker 1: departure of Monsieur de Marquie, the magistrate of Carbail. At
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  Speaker 1: half past five. We toolve him and his clerk, and
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  Speaker 1: before he was able to enter his carriage, had an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to ask him the following question, Can you, Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: de Marquees, give us any information as to this affair
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  Speaker 1: without inconvenience to the cause of your inquiry? It is
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  Speaker 1: impossible for us to do it, replied Monsieur de Marquis.
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  Speaker 1: I can only say it is the strangest affair I
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  Speaker 1: have ever known. The more we think we know something,
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  Speaker 1: the further we are from knowing anything. We asked Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: de Marque to be good enough to explain his last words,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what he said, the importance of which
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  Speaker 1: no one will fail to recognize. If nothing is added
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  Speaker 1: to the material facts so far established, I fear that
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  Speaker 1: the mystery which surrounds the abominable crime of which Mademoiselle
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  Speaker 1: Stangerson has been the victim, will never be brought to light.
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  Speaker 1: But it is to be hoped, for the sake of
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  Speaker 1: our human reason, that the examination of the walls and
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  Speaker 1: of the ceiling of the Yellow Room, an examination which
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  Speaker 1: I shall to morrow in trust to the builder who
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  Speaker 1: constructed the pavilion four years ago, will afford us the
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  Speaker 1: proof that may not discourage us. For the problem is this.
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  Speaker 1: We know by what way the assassin gained admission. He
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  Speaker 1: entered by the door and hid himself under the bed,
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  Speaker 1: awaiting Mademoiselle Stangerson. But how did he leave? How did
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  Speaker 1: he escape? If no trap, no secret door, no hiding place,
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  Speaker 1: no opening of any sort is found. If the examination
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  Speaker 1: of the walls, even to the demolition of the pavilion,
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  Speaker 1: does not reveal any passage practicable not only for a
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  Speaker 1: human being, but for any being whatsoever. If the ceiling
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  Speaker 1: shows no crack, if the floor had no underground passage,
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  Speaker 1: one must really believe in the devil, as Daddy Jacques says.
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  Speaker 1: And the anonymous writer in the Matin added in this article,
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  Speaker 1: which I have selected as the most interesting of all
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  Speaker 1: those that were published on the subject of this affair,
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  Speaker 1: that the examining magistrate appeared to place a peculiar significance
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  Speaker 1: to the last sentence. One must really believe in the devil,
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  Speaker 1: as Jacques says. The article concluded with these lines. We
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  Speaker 1: want to know what Daddy Jacques meant by the cry
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  Speaker 1: of the Bete du bon dieu. The landlord of the
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  Speaker 1: donjon Inn explained to us that it is the particularly
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  Speaker 1: sinister cry which is uttered sometimes at night by the
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  Speaker 1: cats of an old woman, mother a Genoux, as she
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  Speaker 1: is called in the country. Mother Agenoux, is a sort
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  Speaker 1: of saints who lives in a hut in the heart
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  Speaker 1: of the forest, not far from the grotter of Saint
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  Speaker 1: gent Viev the yellow room. The Bedu bon Dieu, Mother Argenoux,
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  Speaker 1: the devil San gent Viev. Daddy Jacques. Here is a
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  Speaker 1: well entangled crime which the stroke of epeckaxe in the wall.
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  Speaker 1: May this entangle for us to morrow? Let us at
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  Speaker 1: least hope that, for the sake of our human reason,
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  Speaker 1: As the examining magistrate says, meanwhile, it is expected that
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  Speaker 1: Mademoiselle Stangerson, who has not ceased to be delirious and
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  Speaker 1: only pronounces one word distinctly, murderer, murderer, will not live
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  Speaker 1: through the night. In conclusion, and at a late hour,
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  Speaker 1: the same journal announced that the chief of the Soorte
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  Speaker 1: had telegraphed to the famous detective Frederic Larson, who had
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  Speaker 1: been sent to London for an affair of stolen securities,
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  Speaker 1: to return immediately to Paris. End of chapter one