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And Gabrielle, I could only surmise, was the girl I had seen stark and dead in that handsome room in Stretton Street. That night of watchfulness had borne fruit. I had learnt from De Gex's own lips that another deep and subtle trap was to be laid for me a trap baited with the tragic-faced girl herself.
"Shall we say beauty?" softly queried a tragic-faced youth, sensitive and shrinking, crowned with an abominably trimmed head of long hair. Ernestine rose suddenly at her place, hands on table, leaning forward with a fine simulation of intensity. "They're off!" she cried. "They're off! Now we'll have the universe settled all over again for the thousandth time.
For, surely, nowhere else in the world are so many strange and abnormal human beings gathered together in one place. The tragic-faced gentleman, for instance, with the corkscrew ringlets that bob up and down like spiral springs as he walks? Or the short, elderly gentleman in the black cassock and bowler hat, who shatters your nerves by turning suddenly and revealing himself as a middle-aged woman?
For, surely, nowhere else in the world are so many strange and abnormal human beings gathered together in one place. The tragic-faced gentleman, for instance, with the corkscrew ringlets that bob up and down like spiral springs as he walks? Or the short, elderly gentleman in the black cassock and bowler hat, who shatters your nerves by turning suddenly and revealing himself as a middle-aged woman?
Towards the narrow-eyed Doctor Moroni I felt an instinctive dislike, even though I had no cause to distrust him. I think it was the strange intuition I experienced at that moment which caused me to decide to act with discretion and caution, and to discover all that I could concerning the doctor and his tragic-faced companion.
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