But let
him only give me the chance! Let me find out whether he is really
a creature of flesh and blood!--Let me see his dead body, since
it cannot be taken alive.
"If I could but make this woman, who does not even look at us,
understand! She is absorbed by her fears and by her father's
distress of mind. And I can do nothing to save her. Yes, I will
go to work once more and accomplish wonders.
"I move towards her. I would speak to her. I would entreat her
to have confidence in me. I would, in a word, make her understand
--she alone--that I know how the murderer escaped from The Yellow
Room--that I have guessed the motives for her secrecy--and that I
pity her with all my heart. But by her gestures she begged us to
leave her alone, expressing weariness and the need for immediate
rest. Monsieur Stangerson asked us to go back to our rooms and
thanked us. Frederic Larsan and I bowed to him and, followed by
Daddy Jacques, we regained the gallery. I heard Larsan murmur:
'Strange! strange!' He made a sign to me to go with him into his
room.
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