The Arabic Fortune Teller

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the old fortune-teller lives in a mansion with an Indian manservant and an Arabian maid; she is also accompanied by her granddaughter for that night. At the night before the murder, Roxane was resting in her bedroom. Meanwhile, the manservant was putting back the hares released at a recently-finished ritual (those hares are usually left to die under the jaws of hunting dogs).

Then, the sound of gunfire rattled the mansion, and the fortune-teller's three companions gathered at the hallway. First, the maid banged the door and said to move towards the door, away from the windows, considering that the gunman was outside. The maid suggested that she should escape the mansion. However, there were no answers from Roxane, and the granddaughter did not want the manservant to axe the door, blurting out that the mansion will be hers as long as her grandmother dies. They are left with one option: shooting apart the lock. The maid uses her pistol to destroy the lock, and upon opening the door, a gruesome scene unfolds: Roxane is dead in her wheelchair, her left eye shattered.

Upon investigation of Roxane's companions, the window is locked from the inside, and there are no weapons to be found.

Who is the murderer?

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