The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

The hour of noon had just struck, and the few visitors still lingering among the curiosities of the great museum were suddenly startled by the sight of one of the attendants running down the broad, central staircase, loudly shouting: There was but one person near either of the doors, and as he chanced to be a man closely connected with the museum,being, in fact, one of its most active directors,he immediately turned about and in obedience to a gesture made by the attendant, ran up the marble steps, followed by some dozen others. I say "tableau" because the few persons concerned in it stood as in a picture, absolutely motionless and silent as the dead. Sense, if not feeling, was benumbed in them all, as in another moment it was benumbed in the breasts of these new arrivals. Tragedy was there in its most terrible, its most pathetic, aspect. The pathos was given by the victim,a young and pretty girl lying face upward on the tessellated floor with an arrow in her breast and death stamped unmistakably on every feature,the terror by the look and attitude of the woman they saw kneeling over hera remarkable woman, no longer young, but of a presence to hold the attention, even if the circumstances had been of a far less tragic nature. Her hand was on the arrow but she had made no movement to withdraw it, and her eyes, fixed upon space, showed depths of horror hardly to be explained even by the suddenness and startling character of the untoward fatality of which she had just been made the unhappy witness. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 17763
Author: Green, Anna Katharine
Release Date: Feb 12, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English