The Almost Perfect Murder

way: \"Two guns? Two guns? That lets me out, don't it?\"

\"Why should it?\" demanded Zuleika. \"You could hide a gross of guns in that costume. I knocked against one of them when I sat down at the table!\"

Zuleika, it appeared, was ready to charge anybody with the murder.

\"It's a lie!\" whined Abdullah.

Mme. Storey meanwhile was comparing her gun with the one Mephisto held.

\"Same style and make,\" she remarked. \"No doubt they were carried by the same person.\"


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way: \"Two guns? Two guns? That lets me out, don't it?\"

\"Why should it?\" demanded Zuleika. \"You could hide a gross of guns in that costume. I knocked against one of them when I sat down at the table!\"

Zuleika, it appeared, was ready to charge anybody with the murder.

\"It's a lie!\" whined Abdullah.

Mme. Storey meanwhile was comparing her gun with the one Mephisto held.

\"Same style and make,\" she remarked. \"No doubt they were carried by the same person.\"


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