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I held my breath. What mystery had I discovered? Marigold had been secretly done to death by these hard-faced foreigners!
There was no light save one single lamp at the far end of the road, and by its feeble rays I saw that the silhouettes of the two men who carried their burden to the carriage were those of the sallow-faced foreigner who had met the pair on Calais platform and the man who had awaited the arrival of the express at Milan.