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Updated: May 9, 2025

Does it need so much chicanery to finish one man?" Time passed, and there was no sound except a long clattering from the courtyard. Of a sudden a new voice called through the broken door: "Open, Cercamorte. I am one man alone." "Come in without ceremony. Here am I, waiting to embrace you." "I am Ercole Azzanera, the Marquis Azzo's cousin, and your true friend.

Various - O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920