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  • Murders in the Room or by Edgar Allan Poe, Part one Paris.

  • It was in Paris during the summer of 18 40 there, and then I met a strange and interesting young man named Auguste Dupin.

  • Do Pot was the last member of a well known family, a family that had once been rich and famous.

  • Oh, go.

  • Stupor, however, was far from rich.

  • He cared little about money.

  • He had enough to buy necessities and a few books.

  • That was all just books with books.

  • He was happy.

  • In fact, we first met in an old bookstore.

  • A few more chance meetings at such stores followed.

  • Soon we began to talk.

  • I was deeply interested in the family history, he told me I was surprised, too, at how much and how widely he had read.

  • More important, the force of his busy mind was like a bright light in my soul.

  • I felt that the friendship of such a man would be for me, riches without price.

  • So I told him how I felt and asked him to come live with me.

  • He would enjoy using my many fine books, and I would have the pleasure of company for I was not happy alone.

  • We passed the days reading, writing and talking.

  • But do Pan was a lover of the night so often we walked the streets of Paris after dark.

  • I soon noticed that Japan had a special way of understanding people.

  • Using it gave him great pleasure.

  • He told me once with a soft laugh that he could see through the windows that most men have over their hearts.

  • He could look into their souls.

  • Then he surprised me by telling what he knew about my own soul.

  • He knew things about me that I had thought on Lee I could possibly know.

  • At these times he acted cold and emotionally distant.

  • His eyes looked empty and far away.

  • His voice became high and nervous.

  • At such times.

  • It seemed to me that I saw not just do path but to do Pop.

  • One who coldly put things together and another who just is coldly took them apart.

  • One night we were walking down one of Paris's long, dirty streets.

  • We were quiet, both busy with our own thoughts, but suddenly do Pan spoke.

  • You're right, he said.

  • He is a very little fellow.

  • That's true and he would be more successful if he acted in lighter, less serious plays.

  • Yes, there can be no doubt of that, I said.

  • At first I saw nothing strange in this.

  • DuPont had agreed with me.

  • This, of course, seemed to me quite natural a few moments past.

  • Then it hit me.

  • Do Papa had not agreed with something.

  • I had said he had agreed directly with my thoughts.

  • I had not spoken a word.

  • Japan had read my mind.

  • I stopped walking.

  • Do Pan.

  • I said, Do power.

  • I don't understand.

  • How could you know that?

  • I was thinking off here.

  • I stopped speaking.

  • If he really had heard my thoughts, he would have to prove it.

  • And he did.

  • He said, How did I know you were thinking of Shaun T.

  • You were thinking that Shaun T is too small for the plays in which he acts.

  • That is indeed what I was thinking.

  • But tell me in heaven's name.

  • How did you know it was the fruit seller fruit seller?

  • I mean, the man who bumped into you as we entered the street, maybe 15 minutes ago.

  • Oh, yes, I remember now.

  • Ah, fruit seller with a large basket of apples bumped into me.

  • But what does that have to do with you?

  • Knowing I was thinking of Shaun T.

  • I will explain.

  • Listen closely Now let us follow your thoughts.

  • From the fruit seller to the stage actor Shaun t Those thoughts must have gone like this fruit seller to cobblestones, cobblestones to stare iata me stare iata me to Epicurious to Orion and then to Shaun T he continued As we turned onto this street, the fruit seller bumped you.

  • You stepped on some uneven cobblestones.

  • I could see that it hurt your foot.

  • You spoke a few angry words to yourself and continued walking.

  • But do you kept looking at the cobblestones in the street?

  • So I knew you were thinking of them.

  • Then we came toe a small street where they are putting down new street stones Here your face became brighter.

  • You are looking at these mawr even stones and your lips moved.

  • I was sure they formed the word stare iata me which is the name for how these new stones are cut Steri autumn.

  • He takes a large block and divides it evenly into smaller pieces.

  • You will remember that we read about it in the newspaper on Lee yesterday, I thought that the word stare IATA me must make you think of the old Greek writer and thinker Epicurious.

  • His ideas are also about dividing objects into smaller and smaller pieces called Adams.

  • He argued that the world and everything else are made of these atoms.

  • You and I were talking about Epicurious and his ideas, his Adam's.

  • Recently we were talking about how much those old ideas are like today's scientific study of the planets and stars.

  • So I felt sure that now, as we walked, you would look up to the sky and you did.

  • I looked also at the sky.

  • I saw that the group of stars we call O Ryan is very bright and clear.

  • Tonight I knew you would notice this and that he would think about the name Orion.

  • Now keep listening carefully.

  • Onley.

  • Yesterday in the newspaper, there was a report about the actor Shaun T.

  • The critic did not praise him, and he used a Latin saying that had also been used to describe a Ryan.

  • So I knew you would put together the two ideas of all Ryan and Shaun T.

  • I saw you smile remembering the article and the mean words in it.

  • Then I saw you straighten up as tall as you could make yourself.

  • I was sure you were thinking of Shaun T size and especially his height.

  • He is small, he is short.

  • And so I spoke, saying that he is indeed a very little man, This Shaun T.

  • And he would be more successful if he acted in lighter, less serious plays.

  • I cannot say I was surprised by what Japan had just reported.

  • My reaction was much bigger than just surprise.

  • I was astonished Japan was right.

  • As right as he could be.

  • Those were in fact my thoughts.

  • My unspoken thoughts as my mind moved from one thought to the next.

  • But if I was astonished by this, I would soon be more than astonished.

  • One morning, this strangely interesting man showed me once again his unusual reasoning power.

  • We heard that an old woman had been killed by unknown persons.

  • The killer or killers had cut her head off and escaped into the night.

  • Who waas this killer, This murderer.

  • The police had no answer.

  • They had looked everywhere and found nothing that helped them.

  • They did not know what to do next.

  • And so they did nothing but not DuPont.

  • He knew what to do.

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