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They learnt the hours at which he left and returned to his home; the places he visited, the times at which his visits were paid. When the seasonable hour arrived, the ambush was set by Bomilcar. The elaborate precautions which had been taken proved to have been thrown away; the assassin who struck the fatal blow was no adept in the art of secret killing.
By this time four female servants had entered the room where their mistress was lying huddled and motionless. All of them were in deshabille. Then all became excitement and confusion. Hugh left them to unloosen her clothing and hastened out upon the veranda whereon the assassin must have stood when firing the shot.
You are are about to banish, perhaps slay, a man, and to bring then, a foreign army into France; I am, then, to see you an assassin and a traitor to your country! By what tortuous paths have you arrived thus far? By what stages have you descended so low?" "Any other than yourself would not speak thus to me twice," said Cinq- Mars, coldly; "but I know you, and I like this explanation.
The silent assassin that lurks in the shadow of the midnight moon is an explosion of dynamite compared to the party that made way with Diotti. You ask, why should they kill him? My boy, you don't know the world. They were jealous of his enormous hit, of our dazzling success. Jealousy did it."
Upon this, the king gave, in the first place, orders to his servants and his guards to search for the sword he had lost; but the woman, who had concealed it, thinking it might afford some clue to the assassin of her child, instantly understood, on hearing these inquiries, that Mansoor was the man.
"Not entirely false," returned the villain. "The detective was hurt, and has since died." "Since last night?" "No, before that, but I will not palaver with you. I set out to rid the earth of my rival in business, and this is the way I do it." The speaker thrust forward his revolver and fired. The aim of the would-be assassin was not good. His bullet flew wide of the mark. Why?
Would to God that that be not so! for then I should but too surely be an assassin. He was my first thought when I awoke. I thought of sending out to make inquiries. But I did not dare do it." M. Folgat felt his heart oppressed with most painful anxiety, like the prisoner himself. Hence he said at once, "We cannot remain in this uncertainty.
No one would have got on such a track of suspicion as that he, the lover and affianced husband of Angela, was her brutal assassin! "I wrote a loving letter and sent her flowers," he argued with himself, "when I knew she would be dead!
Capital place this for young ladies to dance in, so light and airy. Many a poor wretch has entered here, with promises of fortune and royal favour, and has met his doom at the hand of the assassin! In my long course of service, how many Kaëds and Sheikhs I have known, who have come in here and have never gone out. I'm a great reader of Shakspeare. It's the next book after the Bible.
The Assassin for ever! announced for Monday night, before a select audience!" "Well, you are an irresistible Queen Bee," said Fred; "why Alex has just been telling me ever so much that his mother told him about grandmamma's dislike to it. I thought the whole concern a gone 'coon, as they say in America."
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