[The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mystery of the Hasty Arrow BOOK II 35/96
But if I had, I should have seen nothing.
He was well hid, exceedingly well hid, whoever he was. But he cannot escape now; you'll get him, won't you, Inspector? He could not have left the building--all say that this was impossible.
He was one, then, of the people I saw moving about when I went down into the court. Find him! Find this murderer of innocence! of the sweetest, purest child----" He turned away; grief was taking the place of indignation and revenge. At this sight the two men left him.
The Inspector was at last convinced, both of the man's probity and of one stern, disconcerting fact: that the real culprit--the man whose guilty fingers had launched the fatal arrow--had been, as Travis said, one of the twenty-two persons who had been moving about for hours not only under his eyes but under those of the famous detective posted there. XI FOOTSTEPS WANTED--A WOMAN CALLING HERSELF ANTOINETTE Duclos, just arrived from Europe on the steamer _Castania_, who after taking rooms at the Universal for herself and her steamer companion, Angeline Willetts, left the hotel in great haste late in the afternoon of May twenty-third and has not been heard of since. In person she is of medium height, but stocky for a Frenchwoman.
Dark hair, black eyes, with an affection of the lid which causes the left one to droop.
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