The alarm had instantly filled all the court windows, for it was a sleepless night--a night of nervous apprehension when everyone was keeping a sad vigil.
"She has killed herself," said a voice which seemed to come up from a well.

"The German woman has committed suicide." The explanation of the concierge leaped from window to window up to the top floor.
The Russian was shaking his head with a fatalistic expression.

The unhappy woman had not taken the death-leap of her own accord.

Someone had intensified her desperation, someone had pushed her.

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