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Updated: May 9, 2025
The unhappy city below, is not more lost and dreary, than these fire-charred hills and the stagnant water, above.
If a picture of the chateau as it was to be a very few years hence, and of fifty like it as they too were to be a very few years hence, could have been shown to him that night, he might have been at a loss to claim his own from the ghastly, fire-charred, plunder-wrecked rains.
They carried rude clubs and banot, or barbed spears of pine-wood with fire-charred points.
Then, with no emphasis: "It's rather more than a year!... They sent me two fire-charred skulls the head of a man and the head of a woman.... That was a year ago.... After your pigeon arrived... I found the scorched skulls wrapped in a Swiss newspaper-lying inside the garden wall over there on the grass!... And the swine had written your names on the skulls...."
Some have tumbled down; others were tumbling down; many of those standing were lumber or board shanties called 'quarter-frames' and 'ground-floors; sundry large piles rose grisly and fire-charred, and the few good houses looked quite modern.
"Come, let us walk," Colonel Zane said abruptly, and, with Mr. Sheppard, followed the girls down the path. He escorted them to the fort, showed a long room with little squares cut in the rough-hewn logs, many bullet holes, fire-charred timbers, and dark stains, terribly suggestive of the pain and heroism which the defense of that rude structure had cost.
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