Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 90: what you’re looking at

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82 HER ROYAL LOVER. “This very night, with my own eyes, I have seen, or I believe I saw, aman leap out of that window; but the night was so dark, the obscurity so intense, that I supposed that I was mistaken; then the in- fluence of the chloroform, employed in the evening to alleviate neuralgic pains, was such that in spite of my will, it was impossible for me to act. I was as if annihilated.” Then briefly he related all that which had impressed him during this stupor impos- sible to subdue. The deposition of Mineleko was regarded by the commissary as very serious and very important who, not taking in consideration enough the anesthetic condition of the prince during the preceeding night, considered it inexplicable that, even having only believed to have seen aman jump out of the win- dow, he had not aroused the whole house and made immediately the necessary researches in order to assure himself if he was really the sport of nervous excitement. All this seemed to him at least very strange, very astonishing, and perhaps he was going to communicate his reflections to the doctor, when the doctor suddenly exclaimed: “Look, then! but look then at that which I have discovered after a second examination of the body!” At these words, all eyes were anxiously directed on the hand of the physician who displayed the neck of the unfortunate Kassar. There they saw plainly the imprint of ten frantic fingers by which he had surely been strangled. Kiverybody remained silent in the presence of this new disclosure. “Sapristi! a powerful hand has caused this death,” exclaimed the commissary. “The unfortunate man must have passed from life to death without even (€(0) any é|0) DOKS (E(0)