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The Inheritors

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
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through the left temple ...

_Mon Dieu_!" De Mersch walked slowly down the long corridor away from us.

There was an extraordinary stiffness in his gait, as if he were trying to emulate the goose step of his days in the Prussian Guard.

My companion looked after him as though she wished to gauge the extent of his despair.
"You would say '_Habet_,' wouldn't you ?" she asked me.
I thought we had seen the last of him, but as in the twilight of the dawn we waited for the lodge gates to open, a furious clatter of hoofs came down the long street, and a carriage drew level with ours.

A moment after, de Mersch was knocking at our window.
"You will ...


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