The body which lay in the bath was that of a tall, stout man of about fifty. The hair was thick, black and curly, the features fleshy and strongly marked, with prominent dark eyes and a long nose.
On the dead face a handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance; the fine gold chain curved over the naked breast.
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"By Jove!" thought Peter, idly, "that's an ideal doctrine for the criminal. A man who believed that would never -"