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The corner which until then had been filled by the trunk seemed to Gervaise an immense empty space. Even the little mirror which hung on the window-fastening was gone. When she made this discovery, she had a presentiment. She looked on the mantel-piece. Lantier had taken away the pawn tickets; the pink bundle was no longer there, between the two odd zinc candlesticks.
The Prince's own doctors maintained that suicide by the handkerchiefs from the window-fastening was impossible. Dr Dubois wrote his idea of how the death had occurred: The Prince very likely was asleep in his bed. The murderers must have been given entrance to his bedroom I have no wish to ask how or by whom.
He watched you through the window and saw you hide the necklace. Afterward, he cut the glass and pulled the ring." "Ah! but the distance was so great that it would be impossible for him to reach the window-fastening through the transom." "Well, then, if he could not open the window by reaching through the transom, he must have crawled through the transom." "Impossible; it is too small.
When she opened her eyes again they had stopped and were standing under a shuttered window at what appeared to be the back of a summer cottage; the tinker was prying a rock out of the mud at their feet. In a most business-like manner he used it to smash the fastening of the shutters, and, when these were removed, to break the small, leaded pane of glass nearest the window-fastening.
Instead, he asked him in a matter-of-fact way to shut the window for him. The boy did so without blundering. The window-fastening was new to him, and Aymer noticed he looked at it curiously and shut it twice to see how it went. Then he sat down again and continued to gaze at Aymer. "I forgot, I was to tell you something," he said suddenly, his face wrinkling with distress.
He next slid his hand to the window-fastening and turned it softly, while with his left hand he levelled a revolver. "You're not going to fire, surely!" M. de Lourtier-Vaneau entreated. "If I must, I shall." Renine pushed open the window gently. But there was an obstacle of which he was not aware, a chair which toppled over and fell.
The swinging sash of the long French window opposite him shut with a bang, and Napoleon had a glimpse of a bit of white skirt, caught for an instant on the window-fastening. "Ah, ha! it was not a bird, then, that fluttering," he said. "It was a girl. One of my sisters. Now, which one, I wonder? and why did she run? I do not care to catch her. It is no sport playing with girls."
The fastening was only about two and a half feet off the floor. The handkerchief about the dead man's neck was loose enough to have permitted insertion of all the fingers of a hand between it and the neck. The second handkerchief was tied to the first, and its other end was knotted to the window-fastening, and the dead man's right cheek was pressed against the closed shutter.
The note was little, if at all, louder than before, and repetition broke the illusion no picture followed, as he had half hoped it might. "But what is this? Goodness! what force the wind can get up in a few minutes! What a tremendous gust! There! I knew that window-fastening was no use! Ah! I thought so both candles out. It is enough to tear the room to pieces."
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