human
A few seconds after talking with Madame Sin, Weems was stricken. Also, the lady with the odd name was seen coming from the roulette room at about the time when a party entered and found the croupier and eight guests turned from people into statues. But she was nowhere around when Wilson died in the conference room.
gpt
The watches were taken from all the sufferers from this strange paralysis, save Weems. By whom? Madame Sin? Weems' watch is absolutely in good order, but it won't run. The ball on the roulette wheels stays on a slant instead of rolling down into a slot as it should when the wheel is motionless. But the wheel doesn't seem to be quite motionless. It apparently moved a fraction of an inch in the forty-five minutes or so that I was in the room.
human
You're sure you didn't touch it, and set it moving? said Beatrice.
gpt
Those wheels are delicately balanced.
human
Not that delicately! I barely brushed it with my fingers as I examined the ivory ball. No, I didn't move it. But I'm sure it did move....
gpt
Here's the master key, he said, extending a key to Keane.
human
I got it from the manager. But--you're sure it is necessary to enter Madame Sin's rooms?
gpt
Very,
human
She is in now, said the president.
gpt
Could you--just to avoid possible scandal--inasmuch as you don't intend to knock before entering----
human
I'll have Miss Dale go in first. If Madame Sin is undressed or--entertaining--Miss Dale can apologize and retreat. But I am sure Madame Sin will be unaware of intrusion. In spite of the conviction of your key clerk that she is in, I am quite sure that, at least figuratively, she is out.
gpt
echoed Gest.
human
I don't understand.
gpt
You will later--unless this is my fated time to lose in the fight I have made against the devil who calls himself Doctor Satan. Are Chichester and Kroner in the hotel?
human
Kroner is in the Turkish bath two blocks down the street. Chichester went home ten minutes ago.
gpt
Madame Sin will be unaware of intrusion,