"
"Well, what do you make of it?" I asked Rouletabille, after he had
ended his recital. "Personally I am utterly in the dark. I can't
make anything out of it. What do you gather?"
"Everything! Everything!" he exclaimed. "But," he said abruptly,
"let's find out more about Mademoiselle Stangerson."
CHAPTER XXIV
Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer
Mademoiselle Stangerson had been almost murdered for the second
time. Unfortunately, she was in too weak a state to bear the
severer injuries of this second attack as well as she had those of
the first. She had received three wounds in the breast from the
murderer's knife, and she lay long between life and death. Her
strong physique, however, saved her; but though she recovered
physically it was found that her mind had been affected. The
slightest allusion to the terrible incident sent her into delirium,
and the arrest of Robert Darzac which followed on the day following
the tragic death of the keeper seemed to sink her fine intelligence
into complete melancholia.
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