Short Fiction by Edgar Allan Poe

Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Short stories, Fantasy fiction, Horror tales, American, American fiction -- 19th century, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Indexes
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2020-11-18T00:18:28+00:00

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There has no person, whatever, come forward, so far, who saw her at all, on that day, after she left her mother’s door.

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Now, though we have no evidence that Marie Rogêt was in the land of the living after nine o’clock on Sunday, June the twenty-second, we have proof that, up to that hour, she was alive. On Wednesday noon, at twelve, a female body was discovered afloat on the shore of the Barrière de Roule. This was, even if we presume that Marie Rogêt was thrown into the river within three hours after she left her mother’s house, only three days from the time she left her home⁠—three days to an hour. But it is folly to suppose that the murder, if murder was committed on her body, could have been consummated soon enough to have enabled her murderers to throw the body into the river before midnight. Those who are guilty of such horrid crimes choose darkness rather the light.

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