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The doctor was listening now with half-closed eyes, but with a suggestion of rigid attention and a close knitting of the muscles of his mouth that spoke of the fact that every ounce of vitality in him was concentrated on the subject in hand.
"Ah," he said. "That brings us back to our original point. You say that the man was murdered a little time before you saw him. I, on the contrary am bold enough to declare that you were looking at the corpse of a man who died long before."