Then they stopped suddenly. They seemed to be the screams of a person (or people) in great pain.
“The policeman went upstairs. On the first story he heard two loud and angry voices. One was low and rough. The other was high and very strange. The first voice was a Frenchman’s. He heard the words ‘Mon Dieu’. He was sure that it was not a woman’s voice. The second voice was foreign; a man or a woman – Monsieur Muset was not sure. He could not hear the voice clearly. He believes that the language was Spanish. He described the room and the bodies as we described them yesterday.
