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"Vivid enough; but I am sure you will tell me one thing more. Did you see
the face of this body as well as the arm? It would greatly add to the
strength of your testimony if you could describe it."
Ransom, who had been watching Hazen, cast a sudden look back at the
lawyer as he dropped these insinuating words. Something more than a
cold-blooded desire for truth had prompted this almost brutal
inquisition. He must know what it was, if anything in Harper's
well-controlled countenance would tell him. The result transfixed him,
for following the lawyer's gaze, which was fixed not on the man he was
addressing but on a small mirror hanging on the opposite wall, he saw
reflected in it the face and form of Anitra standing in the open
doorway behind them.
She was looking at Hazen and, as Ransom noted that look, he understood
Harper's previous caution and all that lay behind his insistent and
cold-blooded questions. For her gaze was no longer one of simple inquiry
but of horrified understanding;--_the gaze of one who heard_.
Meantime, Hazen was answering in painful gasps the lawyer's pointed
question, "Did you see the face of this body as well as the arm?"
"Did I see--God help me, yes. Just a glimpse, but I knew it. Eyes that my
mother had kissed, blind--staring--glassed in awe and unspeakable fright.
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