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"You were right, unquestionably, Storm," Dr. Carr announced twenty minutes later as the other joined him in the library. "I don't mind admitting that my thoughts-my sensations, rather-when first I saw the body were identical with what yours had been, but there's only one possible conclusion. Mrs. Storm must have been seated in that big chair by the hearth when she felt suddenly faint; and in trying to rise, she must have fallen forward, striking her forehead with crushing force against that solid brass knob on the fender. Agnes tells me that she found her mistress lying face downward against it, and thinking she had merely fainted, turned the body over. It was only when she saw the wound that she screamed. Of one thing you may be sure; Mrs. Storm didn't suffer. She never knew what struck her. Death came instantly."
Storm sank into a chair, his twitching face turned from the light. If Carr only knew!