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It was not until a surgeon arrived that he understood that the lady hadindeed shot someone and that the someone was himself. He was a vigorous-looking, active sort of man of fifty or so years,dressed in the stout clothes and boots of a gentleman-farmer. All in all it was a veritable magician's cave and the pretty Spanish maidwho brought coffee and almond b It was a gloomy enough spot.

But immediately he seemed dissatisfied with what he haddone. It was shot through with new fears, newdesires, new hatreds. He seemed to dislike the question. It was shot through with new fears, newdesires, new hatreds.