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Chapter 10 The Answer of the Mikado
Chapter 10 The Answer of the MikadoA week later, that is to say, on the 8th of February, 1904, I was in Tokio. The behavior of the Princess Y—— on hearing of the death of her victim had been a strange mixture of heartlessness and hysterical remorse. At the first sound of the fatal shots, she came rushing to the scene of the tragedy, and cast herself on the floor of the corridor beside the dead man, seizing his hands, crying his name aloud, and weeping frantically. When I tried to raise her, so that the body might be removed, she turned on me fiercely. “This is your fault!” she cried. “Who are you, and how dared you interfere with me?” “As you see by my uniform, I am an inspector of police attached to the Third Section.” She gazed at me searchingly for a moment, and then, l
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