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Updated: July 2, 2025
Silently he surveyed the slight recumbent form on the couch, his moving lips seemed to be counting the drops which dripped from her clinging garments on to the carpet. "Dead, did ye say? Why, I carried her here brought her across the moors to you." His voice trembled. "Can't ye do nothing?" "No not now. It is too late." Thalassa's eyes rested attentively on the other's face.
He confined himself to a reply which was a strict statement of fact, so far as it went. "Until I heard Thalassa's story to-day I had no idea of the time of my own arrival at Flint House on that night," he said. "The clock found lying on the floor upstairs was stopped at half-past nine," remarked Barrant with a reflective air, as though turning over all the facts in his mind.
The instrument of silver and rubber held miraculous possibilities of life and death to Thalassa. He watched it anxiously directed the light upon it. The shape on the couch remained motionless. Thalassa's gaze wandered from the stethoscope to Dr. Ravenshaw. The doctor's bent neck showed white between the top of his shirt and the grey hair above it.
When it saw it was observed it vanished swiftly seaward in noiseless flight. The division, commenced good-humouredly enough, soon developed the elements of a gamble between Robert Turold and Remington. They forgot Thalassa's existence as they argued and disputed over the allotment of certain stones.
She went to the door immediately to find out who it was, but there was nobody there." "Do you think she imagined it?" "No; I think somebody was there, but it is by no means certain that it was Thalassa. It might have been Thalassa's wife. It might even have been Robert's daughter." "Was not Miss Turold present at the family gathering?"
But the loose end in the theory was Thalassa's share in that night's events, and his dogged silence since under strong suspicion. Thalassa knew more than he had yet revealed, but what did he know? What was his share in the business? It was difficult to say. Barrant was unable to accept the assumption that three people were concerned in the murder.
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