[The Shadow of the Rope by E. W. Hornung]@TWC D-Link bookThe Shadow of the Rope CHAPTER XXVII 20/30
At last I got up and went to the window.
And all the windows opposite were in darkness except theirs." Langholm sprang to his feet, but sat down again as suddenly. "Go on!" "What is it that you thought, Langholm ?" "I believe I know what you did.
That's all." "What? Tell me, please, and then I will tell you." "All those garden walls--they connect." "Yes? Yes ?" "You got through your window, climbed upon your wall, and ran along to the lights.
It occurred to you suddenly; it did to me when I went over the house the other day." Severino lay looking at the imaginative man. "And yet you could suspect another after that!" "Ah, there is some mystery there also.
But it is strange, indeed, to think that I was right in the beginning!" "I did not know what I was doing," resumed the young Italian, who, like many a clever foreigner, spoke more precise English than any Englishman; that, with an accent too delicate for written reproduction, alone would have betrayed him.
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