In the room men shrank back, for they knew that death was behind the little door, and that they were in the presence of a sorrow greater than death.
Suddenly she turned upon them with a gesture of piteous triumph and said: "You cannot have him now." Then she swayed and fell forward to the floor as the Cure and George Fournel entered the room.

The Cure hastened to her side and lifted up her head.
George Fournel pushed the men back who would have entered the bath-room, and himself, bursting the door open, entered.

Louis lay dead upon the floor.

He turned to the constables.
"As she said, you cannot have him now.

You have no right here.Go.I had a warning from the man he killed.