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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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ssassin yourself? No, I encountered no one. Ah. Then—if you will excuse theremark—I do not quite see the relevancyof the information. It has none. At present. I say ithas none—at present. He paused. Pres-ently he resumed: I did not encounterthe assassin, but I am on his track, Iam sure, for I believe he is in this room.I will ask you all to pass one by one infront of me—here, where there is a goodlight—so that I can see your feet. A buzz of excitement swept the place,and the march began, the guest lookingon with an iron attempt at gravity whichwas not an unqualified success. Stillmanstooped, shaded his eyes with his hand,and gazed down intently at each pair offeet as it passed. Fifty men trampedmonotonously by—with no result. Sixty.Seventy. The thing was beginning tolook absurd. The guest remarked, withsuave irony, Assassins appear to be scarce thisevening. The house saw the humor of it, and re-freshed itself with a cordial laugh. Tenor twelve more candidates tramped by—
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Half-tone plate engraved by W H. Clark IN A MOMENT I WAS AT HIS SIDE A DOUBLE-BARRELLED DETECTIVE STORY. 437 no, danced by, with airy and ridiculouscapers which convulsed the spectators—then suddenly Stillman put out his handand said, This is the assassin! Fetlock Jones, by the great Sanhe-drim ! roared the crowd; and at once letfly a pyrotechnic explosion and dazzleand confusion of stirring remarks in-spired by the situation. At the height of the turmoil the gueststretched out his hand, commandingpeace. The authority of a great nameand a great personality laid its myste-rious compulsion upon the house, and itobeyed. Out of the panting calm whichsucceeded, the guest spoke, saying, withdignity and feeling: This is serious. It strikes at an in-nocent life. Innocent beyond suspicion!Innocent beyond peradventure! Hear meprove it; observe how simple a fact canbrush out of existence this witless lie.Listen. My friends, that lad was neverout of my sight yesterday evening at anytime! It mad

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