John Everett Millais paintings

John Everett Millais paintings
James Jacques Joseph Tissot paintings
When Mrs. Charpentier paused," the detective continued, "I saw that the whole case hung upon one point. Fixing her with my eye in a way which I always found effective with women, I asked her at what hour her son returned.
""I do not know," she answered.
""Not know?"
""No; he has a latchkey, and he let himself in."
""After you went to bed?"
""Yes."
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""When did you go to bed?"
""About eleven."
""So your son was gone at least two hours?"
""Yes."
""Possibly four or five?"
""Yes."
""What was he doing during that time?"
""I do not know," she answered, turning white to her very lips.
"Of course after that there was nothing more to be done. I found out where Lieutenant Charpentier was, took two officers with me, and arrested him. When I touched him on the shoulder and warned him to come quietly with us, he answered us as bold as brass, "I suppose you are arresting me for being concerned in the death of that scoundrel Drebber," he said. We had said nothing to him about it, so that his alluding to it had a most suspicious aspect."