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‘Had she been in love with her mortal enemy without being aware of it? And had that been why she had cried, so full of terrible sadness, when she thought she had buried him in the midnight sea? “Good-bye, Akechi. Can you grant
me a dying wish? Kiss me.”’

“Your guardian angel is dead.”

“When the butterfly's wings stopped fluttering, the kidnapper laid her down gently on the carpet, rearranging her clothing primly and looking down into her gentle, sleeping face with a malicious smile.”

“Well, you certainly showed yourself to be worthy of your name as a famous detective, didn't you! It seems I have lost tonight. Let us call it a defeat. And what of it? Do you honestly think you can take me prisoner? I think you're expecting a little too much, Mr. Detective.”

“A person’s face does not change no matter how much it is made up.”

In the darkness the terrifying death masks came again. ‘Am I wandering the paths of Hell, ushered by their angry shades’ he wondered. He felt himself in the grip of a queer illusion be had never experienced before.