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Another object in the room also attracted my attention--a pair of long
field-glasses. Had she used these to keep watch upon that spot?
I took them up and focused them upon the boundary of the wood, finding
that I could distinguish everything quite plainly.
"That's where they found the man who was murdered," explained the
servant, who still stood in the doorway.
"I know," I replied. "I was just trying the glasses." Then I put them
down, and on turning saw upon the mantelshelf a small, bright-red
candleshade, which I took in my hand. It was made, I found, to fit upon
the electric table-lamp.
"Miss Muriel was very fond of a red light," explained the young woman;
and as I held it I wondered if that light had ever been placed upon the
toilet-table and the blind drawn up--whether it had ever been used as a
warning of danger?
As I expressed a desire to see the young lady's boudoir, the maid
Cameron took me down to the luxurious little room where, the first
moment I entered, one fact struck me as peculiar.


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