It was strange, very strange!
It was so strange and unaccountable that Signor Fortini felt that,
unless some fresh circumstances should be brought to light beyond
those which had as yet become known either to him, or to the police,
it was safe to predict that the tribunal would not have the means of
coming to any conclusion concerning the author of the murder.
The lawyer turned away from the gate, and strolled through the
streets without any intention as to the direction in which he
walked, so deeply was he pondering upon the possibilities that were
brought within his mental vision by the extraordinary facts he had
ascertained.
He would almost have preferred, he thought, as he pursued his way
profoundly musing, that it should have been shown that one only,
instead of both the persons towards whom the possibilities he had
imagined, pointed, had gone at that strange hour towards the
locality of the crime.
Nevertheless, as he said to himself, the more doubt, the more
elements of difficulty, the better. In truth the chance seemed to be
a very good one, that it might never be known who gave that wretched
girl her death.
CHAPTER VI
At the Circolo again
At the Circolo that evening there was no lack of subject for
conversation, as may be easily imagined. The rooms were very full,
and every tongue was busy with the same topic.
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