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was never intended that I should marry Monsieur Valade, but after the tragedy—’
her eyes darkening in genuine distress ‘—and that he was the only survivor, he
came to me in the convent and married me, and brought me to England. ’
‘In a somewhat roundabout fashion, if you ask me,’ came in a mutter from her
old nurse, very much in her usual style. The next instant, he was launched into eternity!
Scarcely had he been turned off a moment, when a man with swarthy features
leapt into the cart with an open clasp-knife in his hand, and, before he could be
prevented, severed the rope, and cut down the body. Wood could stand it no longer. In Old Palace Yard everybody ran. . But there was, it insisted, no mobility in his face, no
movement, nothing about him that warmed. She went about the gory business of disposing of the
bodies, cutting them up with a large butcher knife and
packing the light dry pieces of their bloodless remains in a
double ply garbage bag, pieces that looked like
overcooked, ruined meat. I will not trust you. "But they will find the
evidences of slaughter in the other room,—the table upset,—the bloody cloth,—
the dead man's sword,—the money,—and my memorandum, which I forgot to
remove. . As Wood obeyed, his foot slipped; and, casting his eyes upon the
floor, he perceived it splashed in several places with blood.
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