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The House of the Wolf

CHAPTER VI
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I recalled the old proverb which says that when thieves fall out, honest men come by their own, and speculated on the chance of the priest freeing us once for all from M.
de Bezers.
But the two were ill-matched.

The Vidame could have taken up the other with one hand and dashed his head on the floor.

And it did not end there.

I doubt if in craft the priest was his equal.

Behind a frank brutality Bezers--unless his reputation belied him--concealed an Italian intellect.


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