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Updated: July 7, 2025
Later on the body of the driver was found on the sandy, torrent-swept waste near Täsch; but the body of the lady, like that of the other horse, had quite disappeared, and was what was left of it by that time whirling amongst the eddies of the Rhone on its way down to the Lake of Geneva. Wykham Delandre made all the enquiries possible, but could not find any trace of the missing woman.
'But make no mistake, my revenge is my own; and I merely use you to help me to it. Wykham asked suddenly: 'Did he marry you? The woman's distorted face broadened out in a ghastly attempt at a smile. It was a hideous mockery, for the broken features and seamed scars took strange shapes and strange colours, and queer lines of white showed out as the straining muscles pressed on the old cicatrices.
So, little by little, the family dropped lower and lower, the men brooding and dissatisfied, and drinking themselves into the grave, the women drudging at home, or marrying beneath them or worse. In process of time all disappeared, leaving only two in the Croft, Wykham Delandre and his sister Margaret.
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