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I had a conviction, based on a sudden intuition, that one explanation must lie at the root of both these curious things, that the secret of which Alexander spoke was a secret still hidden, hidden from my eyes but known to the girl before me, the daughter of the Stefanopouloi. "I won't ask you where you've been, if you don't wish to tell me," said I, carelessly.
But the two cousins of the lord, who had been the hottest in seeking his death, put all the rest to the door, and were themselves alone in the house; for the secret was known to them who were of the blood of the Stefanopouloi. Unto me, the bard, it is not known. Yet men say they went beneath the earth, and there in the earth found the lord.
My English respectability was appalled. "Marry him?" I cried. "Why, he murdered the old lord!" "That has happened before among the Stefanopouloi," said Euphrosyne, with a calmness dangerously near to pride. "And he proposes to murder his wife," I added. "Perhaps he will get rid of her without that." She paused; then came the anger I had looked for before.
But the head of Stefan none saw again, nor did any see his body; but the body and head were gone, whither none know saving the noble blood of the Stefanopouloi; for utterly they disappeared, and the secret was securely kept." I read this passage aloud, translating as I went. At the end Denny drew a breath. "Well, if there aren't ghosts in this house, there ought to be," he remarked.
At this age of the world the idea seemed absurd, preposterous, horrible. But there was no law nearer than Rhodes, and there only Turk's law. The only law here was the law of the Stefanopouloi, and if that law lost its force by the crime of the hand that should wield it, why, strange things might happen even to-day in Neopalia. And we were caught like rats in a trap in the inn!
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