With what sort of ammunition had the gun been loaded, that it should inflict so deadly a wound,--that it should cause such a sudden and complete transformation of that complacently smiling face?
"Who told you that ?" demanded Vajdar so furiously that Blanka recoiled involuntarily.

"Only one person could have been your informant, and I know who that person is.

I shall have my revenge on both of you for this!" With that he was gone, hurrying out of the room and out of the hotel as if pursued by a legion of devils.

Beppo came running to his mistress, and seemed surprised not to find her lying in her blood on the floor with half a dozen dagger-thrusts in her bosom.
"Well," he exclaimed, "whoever that man may be, I shouldn't like to meet him on a dark night in a narrow street." Blanka told her servant that if the gentleman who had just left ever called again, she should not be at home to him.

Then she sent her obedient Beppo away, as she wished to be alone.