[The Czar’s Spy by William Le Queux]@TWC D-Link bookThe Czar’s Spy CHAPTER VII 6/26
Then after a pause she said: "We must discover who that woman was.
She seems, from her complexion and her hair, to be a foreigner, like the man." "Yes, I think so," was my reply.
"I will tell the police all that we have found out, and they will go there presently and recover the body." "If they can only find those two men, then we should know the truth," she declared.
"One of them--the one in brown--was unusually broad-shouldered, and seemed to walk with a slight stoop." "You expected to discover another woman, did you not, Miss Leithcourt ?" I asked presently, as we walked across the moor. "Yes," she answered.
"I expected to find an entirely different person." "And if you had found her it would have proved the guilt of someone with whom you are acquainted ?" She nodded in the affirmative. "Then what we have found this evening does not convey to you the identity of the assassins ?" "No, unfortunately it does not.
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