[The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mystery of the Hasty Arrow BOOK I 105/135
"No friend.
I have never exchanged a word with her--never." "Then we will proceed.
One cannot consider sensibilities in a case like this." And he made a signal to Sweetwater, who turned his body this way and that. The distressed Englishman watched these movements with slowly dilating eyes. "It's the angle we want--the angle at which she presented her body to the gallery front," explained the relentless official. A shudder, then the rigidity of fixed attention, broken in another moment, however, by an impulsive movement and the unexpected question: "Is it to find the man who did it that you are enacting this horrible farce ?" Somewhat startled, the Coroner retorted: "If you object on that account----" But Mr.Travis as vehemently exclaimed: "But I don't! I want the man caught.
One should not shoot arrows about in a place where there are beautiful young women.
I want him caught and punished." As they were all digesting this unexpected avowal, they saw his hand go up.
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