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Barely ten minutes had passed since Thalia was brutally slain, when a lieutenant of the police, accompanied by his squad of constables, appeared on the road bordering Elias' garden.
They were clearly in pursuit of a criminal, for they stopped, gathering to discuss their next move.
"Which way could he have gone?" one of the constable grumbled, sla