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During a quarter of an hour I sat alone smoking a cigarette in thoughtful silence under the trellis, when suddenly I heard the sound of passionate voices on the other side of the ivy. Two persons had evidently seated themselves in close proximity to myself, and I was, so to speak, in the middle of a scene before I realised that I was listening.
"You shall not do this thing," cried a woman's voice. "By God! you shan't -- you shall listen to reason. He has been murdered, foully done to death, and -- "