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 “I can quite understand how this ghastly affair has shaken you up.”

“It was so sudden,” said the other, plaintively. “It is incredible that so much emotion can be crowded into so short a period of a man’s life.”…

Big Ben chimed the quarter after midnight. Leroux, eyes averted, walked to the writing-table, and took up the telephone.