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  Speaker 1: Chapter three of the Mystery of the Yellow Room. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Recording by J. C. Guan. The Mystery
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  Speaker 1: of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux, Chapter three, A
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  Speaker 1: man has passed like a shadow through the blinds. Half
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  Speaker 1: an hour later, Rouletabay and I were on the platform
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  Speaker 1: of the Orleans station, awaiting the departure of the train
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  Speaker 1: which was to take us to Epinicurorge. On the platform
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  Speaker 1: we found Monsieur de Marquier and his register, who represented
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  Speaker 1: the judicial court of Corbeil. Monsieur Marquet had spent the
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  Speaker 1: night in Paris attending the final rehearsal at the Scala
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  Speaker 1: a very little play of which he was the unknown author,
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  Speaker 1: signing himself simply castigari Dando. Monsieur de Marque was beginning
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  Speaker 1: to be a noble old gentleman. Generally, he was extremely
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  Speaker 1: polite and full of gay humor, and in all his
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  Speaker 1: life had had but one passion, that of dramatic art.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout his magisterial career he was interested solely in cases
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  Speaker 1: capable of furnishing him with something in the nature of
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  Speaker 1: a drama. Though he might very well have aspired to
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  Speaker 1: the highest judicial positions, he had never really worked for
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  Speaker 1: anything but to win his success at the romantic Port
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  Speaker 1: Saint Martin or at the somber Odeon. Because of the
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  Speaker 1: mystery which shrouded it. The case of the Yellow Room
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  Speaker 1: was certain to fascinate so theatrical in mind. It interested
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  Speaker 1: him enormously, and he threw himself into it less as
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  Speaker 1: a magistrate eager to know the truth than as an
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  Speaker 1: amateur of dramatic and Brougolius, tending wholly to mystery and intrigue,
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  Speaker 1: who dreads nothing so much as the explanatory final act.
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  Speaker 1: So that at the moment of meeting him, I heard
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur de Marquer say to the registrar with his sigh,
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  Speaker 1: I hope, my dear Monsieur Meline, this builder with his
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  Speaker 1: pickaxe will not destroy so funny mystery. Have no fear,
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  Speaker 1: replied Monsieur Meline. His pickaxe may demolish the pavilion, perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: but it will leave our case. In fact, I have
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  Speaker 1: sounded the walls, and examined the ceiling and floor, and
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  Speaker 1: I know all about it. I am not to be deceived.
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  Speaker 1: Having thus reassured his chief, Monsieur Meline, with a discreet
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  Speaker 1: movement of the head drew Monsieur de Marquer's attention to us.
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  Speaker 1: The face of that gentleman clouded, and as he saw
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  Speaker 1: Rouletabille approaching, hat in hand, he sprang into one of
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  Speaker 1: the empty carriages, saying half aloud to his register. As
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  Speaker 1: he did so, above all no journalists. Monsieur Milena replied
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  Speaker 1: in the same tone, I understand, and then tried to
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  Speaker 1: prevent Rouletabille from entering the same compartment with the examining magistrate.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me, gentlemen, this compartment is reserved. I am a journalist. Monsieur,
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  Speaker 1: engaged on the epoch, said my young friend, with a
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  Speaker 1: great show of gesture and politeness. And I have a
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  Speaker 1: word or two to say to Monsieur de Marquer. Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: is very much engaged with the inquiry he has in hand.
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  Speaker 1: Ah his inquiry. Pray believe me is absolutely a matter
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  Speaker 1: of indifference to me. I am no scavenger of odds
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  Speaker 1: and ends. He went on, with infinite contempt in his
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  Speaker 1: lower lip. I am a theatrical reporter, and this evening
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  Speaker 1: I shall have to give a little account of the
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  Speaker 1: play at the scala. Get in, sir, please, said the registrar.
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  Speaker 1: Rouletabille was already in the compartment. I went in after
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  Speaker 1: him and seated myself by his side. The register followed
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  Speaker 1: and closed the carriage door. Monsieur de Marquis looked at him. Ah, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: Rouletabille began, you must not be angry with Monsieur de Malene.
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  Speaker 1: It is not with Monsieur de Marqie that I desire
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  Speaker 1: to have the honor of speaking, but with Monsieur Costigarridando.
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  Speaker 1: Permit me to congratulate you personally as well as the
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  Speaker 1: writer for the epoch. And Rouletabill, having first introduced me,
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  Speaker 1: introduced himself. Monsieur de Marquie, with a nervous gesture, caressed
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  Speaker 1: his beard into a point, and explained to Rouletabille in
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  Speaker 1: a few words that he was too modest an author
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  Speaker 1: to desire that the veil of his pseudonym should be
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  Speaker 1: publicly raised, and that he hoped the enthusiasm of the
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  Speaker 1: journalist for the dramatist's work would not leave e n
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  Speaker 1: to tell the public that Monsieurqueste Garridando and the examining
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  Speaker 1: magistrate of Courbet were one and the same person. The
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  Speaker 1: work of the dramatic ouswer might interfere, he said, after
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  Speaker 1: a slight hesitation with Dutch of the magistrate, especially in
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  Speaker 1: a province where one's labors are a little more than routine. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you may rely on my discretion, cried Rouletabille. The train
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  Speaker 1: was in motion. We have started, staid the examining magistrate,
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  Speaker 1: surprised at seeing us still in the carriage. Yes, Monsieur,
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  Speaker 1: truth has started, said Rouletabille, smiling amiably, on its way
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  Speaker 1: to the Chateau du GLANDI a fine case, Monsieur de Marquis,
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  Speaker 1: A fine case, an obscure, incredible, unfathomable, inexplicable affair. And
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  Speaker 1: there is only one thing I fear, Monsieur le Debby,
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  Speaker 1: that the journalists will be trying to explain it. My
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  Speaker 1: friend felt this a rap on his knuckles. Yes, he said, simply,
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  Speaker 1: that is to be feared. They meddle in everything. As
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  Speaker 1: for my interest, Monsieur, I only referred to it by
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  Speaker 1: mere chance, the mere chance of finding myself in the
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  Speaker 1: same train with you, and in the same compartment of
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  Speaker 1: the same carriage. Where are you going, then, asked Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: de Marquess to the Chateau de LANDI replied, Couldabille without turning.
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  Speaker 1: You'll not get in, Monsieur Letabille. Will you prevent me,
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  Speaker 1: said my friend, already prepared to fight. Not I. I
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  Speaker 1: like the press and journalists too well to be in
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  Speaker 1: any way disagreeable to them. But Monsieur Stangerson has given
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  Speaker 1: orders for his door to be closed against every body,
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  Speaker 1: and it is well guarded. Not a journalist was able
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  Speaker 1: to pass through the gate of the Glandier yesterday. Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: de Marquies compressed his lips and seemed ready to relapse
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  Speaker 1: into obstinate silence. He only relaxed a little when rouletabill
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  Speaker 1: no longer left him in ignorance of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we were going to the Glandier for the purpose of
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  Speaker 1: shaking hands with an old and intimate friend, Monsieur Robert Darzac,
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  Speaker 1: a man whom Rouletabillt had perhaps seen once in his life.
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  Speaker 1: Poor Robert, continued the young reporter, This dreadful affair may
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  Speaker 1: be his death. He is so deeply in love with
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  Speaker 1: Mademoiselle Stangerson. His sufferings are truly painful to witness, escaped
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  Speaker 1: like a regret from the lips of Monsieur de Marquis.
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  Speaker 1: But it is to be hoped that Mademoiselle Stangerson's life
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  Speaker 1: will be saved. Let us hope so. Her father told
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  Speaker 1: me yesterday that if she does not recover, it will
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  Speaker 1: not be long before he joins her in the grave.
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  Speaker 1: What an incalculable loss to science his death would be.
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  Speaker 1: The one on her temple is serious, is it not? Evidently?
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  Speaker 1: But by a wonderful chance, it has not proved mortal.
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  Speaker 1: The blow was given with great force, then it was
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  Speaker 1: not when the revolver she was wounded, said Rouletabille, glancing
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  Speaker 1: at me in triumph. Monsieur de Marques appeared greatly embarrassed.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. I don't want to say anything.
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  Speaker 1: I will not see anything, he said, and he turned
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  Speaker 1: towards his registrar, as if he no longer knew us.
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  Speaker 1: But Rouletabille was not to be so easily shaken off.
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  Speaker 1: He moved nearer to the examining magistrate, and, drawing a
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  Speaker 1: copy of the matter from his pocket, he showed it
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  Speaker 1: to him and said, there is one thing monsieur, which
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  Speaker 1: I may inquire of you without committing an indiscretion. You have,
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  Speaker 1: of course seen the account given in the matter. It
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  Speaker 1: is a third, is it not not in the slightest monsieur,
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  Speaker 1: What the yellow room has but one bared window, the
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  Speaker 1: bars of which have not been moved, and only one
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  Speaker 1: door which had to be broken open, and the assassin
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  Speaker 1: was not found. That's so, monsieur, that's so. That's how
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  Speaker 1: the matter stands. Rouletabille said no more, but plunged into thought.
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  Speaker 1: A quarter of an hour thus passed. Coming back to
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  Speaker 1: himself again, he said, addressing the magistrate, how did Mademoiselle
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  Speaker 1: Stangerson wear her hair on that evening? I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: replied Monsieur de Marquy. That's a very important point, said Rouletabille.
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  Speaker 1: Her hair was done up in bends, worn it. I
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  Speaker 1: feel sure that on that evening, the evening of the crime,
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  Speaker 1: she had her hair arranged in bands. Then you are mistaken,
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur Rouletabille, replied the magistrate. Mademoiselle Stangerson that evening had
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  Speaker 1: her hair drawn up in it, not on the top
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  Speaker 1: of her head, her usual way of arranging it. Her
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  Speaker 1: forehead completely uncovered. I can assure you, for we have
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  Speaker 1: carefully examined the wound. There was no blood on the hair,
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  Speaker 1: and the arrangement of it has not been disturbed since
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  Speaker 1: the crime was committed. You are sure, you are sure
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  Speaker 1: that on the night of the crime she had not
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  Speaker 1: her hair in bands. Quite he the magistrate continued, smiling,
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  Speaker 1: because I remembered the doctor saying to me while he
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  Speaker 1: was examining the wound, it is a great pity Mademoiselle
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  Speaker 1: Stangerson was in the habit of drawing her hair back
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  Speaker 1: from her forehead. If she had worn it in bands,
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  Speaker 1: the blow she received on the temple would have been weakened.
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  Speaker 1: It seems strange to me that you should attach so
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  Speaker 1: much importance to this point. Oh, if she had not
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  Speaker 1: her hair in bands, I give it up, said Rouletabille,
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  Speaker 1: with a despairing gesture. And was the wound on her
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  Speaker 1: temple a bad one? He asked, presently terrible? With what
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  Speaker 1: weapon was it made? That is a secret of the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Have you found the weapon, whatever it was? The magistrate
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  Speaker 1: did not answer, and the wound in her throat here
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  Speaker 1: the examining magistrate readily confirmed the decision of the doctor
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  Speaker 1: that if the murderer had pressed her throat a few
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  Speaker 1: seconds longer, Mademoiselle Stangerson would have died of strangulation. The affair,
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  Speaker 1: as reported in the matter, said Rouletabille, eagerly, seems to
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  Speaker 1: be more and more inexplicable. Can you tell me, monsieur,
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  Speaker 1: how many openings there are in the pavilion? Am in
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  Speaker 1: doors and windows? There are five, replied Monsieur de Marquy,
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  Speaker 1: after having coughed once or twice, but no longer resisting
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  Speaker 1: the desire he felt to talk of the whole of
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  Speaker 1: the incredible missy, of the affair he was investigating. There
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  Speaker 1: are five of which. The door of the vestibule is
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  Speaker 1: the only entrance to the pavilion, a door always automatically closed,
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  Speaker 1: which cannot be opened either from the outer or the inside,
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  Speaker 1: except with the two special keys, which are never out
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  Speaker 1: of possession of either Daddy Jacques or Monsieurs Stangerson. Mademoiselle
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  Speaker 1: Stangerson had no need for one, since Daddy Jacques lodged
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  Speaker 1: in the pavilion, and because during the daytime she never
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  Speaker 1: left her father one. They all four rushed into the
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  Speaker 1: yellow room after breaking open the door of the laboratory.
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  Speaker 1: The door in the vestibule remained closed as usual, and
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  Speaker 1: of the two keys for opening it, Daddy Jacques had
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  Speaker 1: one in his pocket at Monsieurs Stangerson the other. As
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  Speaker 1: to the windows of the pavilion, there are four, the
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  Speaker 1: one window of the yellow room and those of the
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  Speaker 1: laboratory looking out on to the country. The window in
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  Speaker 1: the vestibule looking into the park. It is by that
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  Speaker 1: window that he escaped from the pavilion, cried Rouletabille. How
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  Speaker 1: do you know that, demanded Monsieur de Marquie, fixing a
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  Speaker 1: strange look on my young friend. Was he later? How
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  Speaker 1: he got away from the yellow room, replied Rouletabille. But
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  Speaker 1: he must have left the pavilion by the vestibule window.
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  Speaker 1: Once more, how do you know that? How oh, the
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  Speaker 1: thing is simple enough. As soon as he found he
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  Speaker 1: could not escape by the door of the pavilion, his
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  Speaker 1: only way out was by the window in the vestibule,
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  Speaker 1: unless he could pass through a grated window. The window
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  Speaker 1: of the yellow room is secured by iron bars because
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  Speaker 1: it looks out upon the open country. The two windows
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  Speaker 1: of the laboratory have to be protected in like manner
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  Speaker 1: for the same reason. As the murderer got away, I
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  Speaker 1: conceive that he found a window that was not bar
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  Speaker 1: that of the vestibule, which opens on to the park,
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  Speaker 1: that is to say, into the interior of the estate.
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  Speaker 1: There is not much magic in all that, yes, said
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur de Marquis. But what you have not guessed is
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  Speaker 1: that this single window in the vestibule, though it has
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  Speaker 1: no iron bars, has solid iron blinds. Now, these iron
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  Speaker 1: blinds have remained fastened by their iron latch, and yet
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  Speaker 1: we have proof that the murderer made his escape from
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  Speaker 1: the pavilion by that window. Traces of blood on the
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  Speaker 1: inside wall and on the blinds, as well as on
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  Speaker 1: the floor and footmarks of which I have taken the measurement,
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  Speaker 1: attest the fact that the murderer made his escape that way.
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  Speaker 1: But then how did he do it? Seeing that the
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  Speaker 1: blinds remained fastened on the inside, he passed through them
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  Speaker 1: like a shadow. But what is more bewildering than all
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  Speaker 1: is that it is impossible to form any idea as
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  Speaker 1: to how the murderer got out of the yellow room,
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  Speaker 1: or how he got across the laboratory to reach the vestibule. Ah, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur Roletabat it is altogether, as you said, a fine case,
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  Speaker 1: the key to which will not be discovered for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. I hope you hope, monsieur Monsieur de Martis
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  Speaker 1: corrected himself. I do not hope, so I think so.
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  Speaker 1: Could that window have been closed and re fastened after
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  Speaker 1: the flight of the assassin, asked to Rouletabill. That is
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  Speaker 1: what occurred to me for a moment, But it would
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  Speaker 1: imply an accomplice or accomplices, and I don't see. After
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  Speaker 1: a short silence, he added, ah, if Mademoiselle Stangerson were
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  Speaker 1: only well enough to day to be questioned. Rouletabille followed
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  Speaker 1: up his thoughts and asked, and the attic there must
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  Speaker 1: be some opening to that. Yes, there is a window,
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  Speaker 1: or rather skylight in it, which, as it looks out
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  Speaker 1: towards the country, Missus Stangerson has had barred. Like the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the windows, these bars, as in the other windows,
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  Speaker 1: have remained intact, and the blinds, which naturally opened inwards,
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  Speaker 1: have not been unfastened. For the rest, we have not
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  Speaker 1: discovered anything to lead us to suspect that the murderer
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  Speaker 1: had passed through the attic. It seems clear to you, then,
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur that the murderer escaped. Nobody knows how by the
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  Speaker 1: window in the vestibule. Everything goes to prove it. I
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  Speaker 1: think so, too, confessed Foule Debille gravely. After a brief silence,
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  Speaker 1: he continued, if you have not found any traces of
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  Speaker 1: the murderer in the attic, such as the dirty footmarks
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  Speaker 1: similar to those on the floor of the Yellow room,
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  Speaker 1: you must come to the conclusion that it was not
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  Speaker 1: he who stole Daddy Jacques's revolver. There are no footmarks
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  Speaker 1: in the attic other than those of Dad Jacques himself,
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  Speaker 1: said the magistrate, with a significant turn of his head. Then,
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  Speaker 1: after an apparent decision, he added that de Jacques was
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  Speaker 1: with Missus Stangerson in the laboratory and it was lucky
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  Speaker 1: for him. He was then, what part did his revolver
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  Speaker 1: re play in the tragedy? It seems very clear that
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  Speaker 1: this weapon did less harm to Mademoiselle Stangerson than it
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  Speaker 1: did to the murderer. The magistrate made no reply to
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  Speaker 1: this question, which doubtless embarrassed him. Monsieur Stangerson, he said,
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  Speaker 1: tells us that the two bullets have been found in
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  Speaker 1: the yellow room. One embedded in the walls stained with
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  Speaker 1: the impression of a red hand, a man's large hand,
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  Speaker 1: and the other in the ceiling. Oh oh, in the ceiling,
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  Speaker 1: muttered Rouletabille. In the ceiling, that's very curious. In the ceiling,
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  Speaker 1: he puffed awhile in silence at his pipe, enveloping himself
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  Speaker 1: in the smoke. When we reached Sabniceau, rouge I had
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  Speaker 1: to tap him on the shoulder to arouse him from
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  Speaker 1: his dream and come out on to the platform of
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  Speaker 1: the station. There the magistrate and his register bowed to us, and,
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  Speaker 1: by rapidly getting into a cab that was awaiting them,
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  Speaker 1: made us understand that they had seen enough of us.
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  Speaker 1: How long will it take to walk to the Chateau
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  Speaker 1: de Glandi, Rouletabill asked one of the railway porters. An
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  Speaker 1: hour and a half or an hour and three quarters,
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  Speaker 1: easy walking, the man replied. Rouletabill looked up at the sky, and,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt, finding its appearance satisfactory, took my arm and said,
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  Speaker 1: come on, I need a walk. Are things getting less entangled?
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  Speaker 1: I asked, not a bit of it, he said, more
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  Speaker 1: entangled than ever. It is true, I have an idea
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  Speaker 1: what's that, I asked. I can't tell you what it
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  Speaker 1: is just at present. It's an idea involving the life
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  Speaker 1: or death of two persons at least. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: there were accomplices? I don't think it. We fell into silence. Presently,
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  Speaker 1: he went on, it was a bit of luck our
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  Speaker 1: falling in with that examining magistrate and his registery, what
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  Speaker 1: did I tell you about that revolver? His head was
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  Speaker 1: bent down, he had his hands in his pockets, and
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  Speaker 1: he was whistling. After a while I heard him murmur,
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  Speaker 1: poor woman, is it Onemisn's dangers in your pitying? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: she is a noble woman and worthy of being pitied,
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  Speaker 1: A woman of great, very great character, I imagine, I
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  Speaker 1: imagine you know her, then not? I have never seen her.
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  Speaker 1: Why then, do you say that she is a woman
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  Speaker 1: of great character? Because she bravely faced the murderer, because
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  Speaker 1: she courageously defended herself, and above all, because of the
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  Speaker 1: bullet in the ceiling. I looked at Rouletabille, and inwardly
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  Speaker 1: wondered whether he was not mocking me, or whether he
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  Speaker 1: had not suddenly gone out of his senses. But I
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  Speaker 1: saw that he had never been less inclined to laugh,
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  Speaker 1: and the brightness of these keenly intelligent eyes assured me
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  Speaker 1: that he retained all his reason. Then, too, I was
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  Speaker 1: used to his broken way of talking, which only left
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  Speaker 1: me puzzled as to his meaning. Till with a very few, clear,
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  Speaker 1: rapidly uttered words, he would make the drift of his
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  Speaker 1: ideas clear to me. And I saw that what he
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  Speaker 1: had previously said, and which had appeared to me void
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  Speaker 1: of meaning, was so thoroughly logical that I could not
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  Speaker 1: understand how it was I had not understood him sooner.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter three