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Think
,
too
,
how
great
must
have
been
that
strength
which
could
have
thrust
the
body
up
such
an
aperture
so
forcibly
that
the
united
vigor
of
several
persons
was
found
barely
sufficient
to
drag
it
down
!
"
Turn
,
now
,
to
other
indications
of
the
employment
of
a
vigor
most
marvellous
.
On
the
hearth
were
thick
tresses
--
very
thick
tresses
--
of
grey
human
hair
.
These
had
been
torn
out
by
the
roots
.
You
are
aware
of
the
great
force
necessary
in
tearing
thus
from
the
head
even
twenty
or
thirty
hairs
together
.
You
saw
the
locks
in
question
as
well
as
myself
.
Their
roots
(
a
hideous
sight
!
)
were
clotted
with
fragments
of
the
flesh
of
the
scalp
--
sure
token
of
the
prodigious
power
which
had
been
exerted
in
uprooting
perhaps
half
a
million
of
hairs
at
a
time
.
The
throat
of
the
old
lady
was
not
merely
cut
,
but
the
head
absolutely
severed
from
the
body
:
the
instrument
was
a
mere
razor
.
I
wish
you
also
to
look
at
the
brutal
ferocity
of
these
deeds
.
Of
the
bruises
upon
the
body
of
Madame
L'Espanaye
I
do
not
speak
.
Monsieur
Dumas
,
and
his
worthy
coadjutor
Monsieur
Etienne
,
have
pronounced
that
they
were
inflicted
by
some
obtuse
instrument
;
and
so
far
these
gentlemen
are
very
correct
.
The
obtuse
instrument
was
clearly
the
stone
pavement
in
the
yard
,
upon
which
the
victim
had
fallen
from
the
window
which
looked
in
upon
the
bed
.
This
idea
,
however
simple
it
may
now
seem
,
escaped
the
police
for
the
same
reason
that
the
breadth
of
the
shutters
escaped
them
--
because
,
by
the
affair
of
the
nails
,
their
perceptions
had
been
hermetically
sealed
against
the
possibility
of
the
windows
have
ever
been
opened
at
all
.
If
now
,
in
addition
to
all
these
things
,
you
have
properly
reflected
upon
the
odd
disorder
of
the
chamber
,
we
have
gone
so
far
as
to
combine
the
ideas
of
an
agility
astounding
,
a
strength
superhuman
,
a
ferocity
brutal
,
a
butchery
without
motive
,
a
grotesquerie
in
horror
absolutely
alien
from
humanity
,
and
a
voice
foreign
in
tone
to
the
ears
of
men
of
many
nations
,
and
devoid
of
all
distinct
or
intelligible
syllabification
.
What
result
,
then
,
has
ensued
?
What
impression
have
I
made
upon
your
fancy
?
"
I
felt
a
creeping
of
the
flesh
as
Dupin
asked
me
the
question
.
"
A
madman
,
"
I
said
,
"
has
done
this
deed
--
some
raving
maniac
,
escaped
from
a
neighboring
Maison
de
Sante
.
"
"
In
some
respects
,
"
he
replied
,
"
your
idea
is
not
irrelevant
.
But
the
voices
of
madmen
,
even
in
their
wildest
paroxysms
,
are
never
found
to
tally
with
that
peculiar
voice
heard
upon
the
stairs
.
Madmen
are
of
some
nation
,
and
their
language
,
however
incoherent
in
its
words
,
has
always
the
coherence
of
syllabification
.
Besides
,
the
hair
of
a
madman
is
not
such
as
I
now
hold
in
my
hand
.
I
disentangled
this
little
tuft
from
the
rigidly
clutched
fingers
of
Madame
L'Espanaye
.
Tell
me
what
you
can
make
of
it
.
"
"
Dupin
!
"
I
said
,
completely
unnerved
;
"
this
hair
is
most
unusual
--
this
is
no
human
hair
.
"
"
I
have
not
asserted
that
it
is
,
"
said
he
;
"
but
,
before
we
decide
this
point
,
I
wish
you
to
glance
at
the
little
sketch
I
have
here
traced
upon
this
paper
.
It
is
a
fac-simile
drawing
of
what
has
been
described
in
one
portion
of
the
testimony
as
'
dark
bruises
,
and
deep
indentations
of
finger
nails
,
'
upon
the
throat
of
Mademoiselle
L'Espanaye
,
and
in
another
,
(
by
Messrs.
Dumas
and
Etienne
,
)
as
a
'
series
of
livid
spots
,
evidently
the
impression
of
fingers
.
'
"
You
will
perceive
,
"
continued
my
friend
,
spreading
out
the
paper
upon
the
table
before
us
,
"
that
this
drawing
gives
the
idea
of
a
firm
and
fixed
hold
.
There
is
no
slipping
apparent
.
Each
finger
has
retained
--
possibly
until
the
death
of
the
victim
--
the
fearful
grasp
by
which
it
originally
imbedded
itself
.
Attempt
,
now
,
to
place
all
your
fingers
,
at
the
same
time
,
in
the
respective
impressions
as
you
see
them
.
"
I
made
the
attempt
in
vain
.
