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The Guilty River

CHAPTER III
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In the moonlight that I had left behind me, I saw again the man whom I had discovered at the window.

His figure, tall and slim; his movements, graceful and easy, were in harmony with his beautiful face.

He lifted his long finely-shaped hands, and clasped them with a frantic gesture of entreaty.
"For God's sake," he said, "don't be offended with me!" His voice startled me even more than his words; I had never heard anything like it before.

Low, dull, and muffled, it neither rose nor fell; it spoke slowly and deliberately, without laying the slightest emphasis on any one of the words that it uttered.

In the astonishment of the moment, I forgot what Cristel had told me.


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