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"What?" he cried, jumping up. "You've unearthed another body--a
woman's?"
"I have. And what is more, I can identify her," I replied. "Her name is
Armida, and she was wife of the murdered man Olinto Santini."
"Then both husband and wife were killed?"
"Without a doubt--a double tragedy."
"But the two men who concealed the body! Will you describe them?"
I did so, and he wrote at my dictation, afterwards remarking--
"We must find them." And calling in one of his sub-inspectors, he gave
him instructions for the immediate circulation of the description to all
the police-stations in the county, saying the two men were wanted on a
charge of willful murder.
When the official had gone out again and we were alone, Mackenzie turned
to me and asked--
"What induced you to search the wood? Why did you suspect a second
crime?"
His question nonplused me for the moment.
"Well, you see, I had identified the young man Olinto, and knowing him
to be married and devoted to his wife, I suspected that she had
accompanied him here.


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