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CHAPTER XXVI THE IVORY HAND
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For close upon an hour Robert Cairn sat at his writing-table, endeavouring to puzzle out a solution to the mystery of Ferrara's motive1. His reflections served only to confuse his mind.
A tangible2 clue lay upon the table before him—the silken cord. But it was a clue of such a nature that, whatever deductions3 an expert detective might have based upon it, Robert Cairn could base none. Dusk was not far off, and he knew that his nerves were not what they had been before those events which had led to his Egyptian journey. He was back in his own chamber—scene of one gruesome outrage4 in Ferrara's unholy campaign; for darkness is the ally of crime, and it had always been in the darkness that Ferrara's activities had most fearfully manifested themselves.
What was that?
Cairn ran to the window, and, leaning out, looked down into the court below. He could have sworn that a voice—a voice possessing a strange music, a husky music, wholly hateful—had called him by name. But at the moment the court was deserted6, for it was already past the hour at which members of the legal fraternity desert their business premises7 to hasten homewards. Shadows were creeping under the quaint8 old archways; shadows were draping the ancient walls. And there was something in the aspect of the place which reminded him of a quadrangle at Oxford9, across which, upon a certain fateful evening, he and another had watched the red light rising and falling in Antony Ferrara's rooms.
Clearly his imagination was playing him tricks; and against this he knew full well that he must guard
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himself. The light in his rooms was growing dim, but instinctively
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motive
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deductions
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扣除( deduction的名词复数 ); 结论; 扣除的量; 推演 | |
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antidote
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din
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wont
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renounce
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groan
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apparently
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bent
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determined
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hue
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vaguely
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adorned
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[计]被修饰的 | |
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incense
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speck
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subdued
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dispel
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burnished
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minor
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ornament
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vividly
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stifling
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intoxicated
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喝醉的,极其兴奋的 | |
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