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Updated: May 8, 2025
Day by day they published its progress "upon the authority of a high official" who never existed, announcing that "behind each one of the grave-robbers stood a detective with uplifted hand" ready to arrest him when the word was given. It was truly the dawn of yellow journalism.
He himself could hardly believe that the woman who came to him so regularly at the same hour was really dead, and when she ate and drank with him, he began to suspect what had been suggested to him namely, that some grave-robbers had violated the tomb and sold the clothes and the gold ornaments to her father.
He filled his pipe with a nonchalant air belied by his shaking hand, and sought to brave it out. They had no mercy on him. They out vied each other in outrageous chaffing. Suddenly he turned on them shrilly. "Coyotes! Grave-robbers! May you be cursed with a woman-devil like I am. Then we'll see!" This was what they desired. They stopped work and rolled on the ground in their laughter.
"I never claimed either for him," the first eagerly broke in. "Only I didn't want to deny the poor fellow that bit of piety which is demanded. De mortuis " And both voices withdraw into the distance. "O you grave-robbers!" I cried and shook my fist after them. "Now I know what your friendship was worth.
I should not care to keep you from gayety and your friends who can smile and entertain you. Perhaps you would prefer to walk back to the house?" Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature. Ask any widow.
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