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Updated: October 9, 2026
"And that is really all that you knew of my mother?" "Absolutely all. The moment I saw your card, I thought to myself, in a breath: 'Ford, Cumberledge; what do I know of those two names? I have some link between them. Ah, yes; found Mrs. Cumberledge, wife of Colonel Thomas Cumberledge, of the 7th Bengals, was a Miss Ford, daughter of a Mr. Ford, of Bangor. That came to me like a lightning-gleam.
At the name, intelligence flashed over me, sudden and clear as last night's lightning-gleam. Yet this thing I seemed to see was so hideous, so horrible, that my mind recoiled from it. "Marcel," I stammered, shuddering, "Marcel " "Mordieu! what ails you? Is some one walking on your grave?" "Marcel, how is M. le Comte named?" "The Comte de Mar? Oh, do you mean his names in baptism?