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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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XV
JOHN



I sat down to my breakfast and my ‘Figaro.’
Nothing very interesting. Suddenly my
eyes fell on the following notice under the big
headlines: AN UGLY BUSINESS.


“Madame Réquin, sage-femme de première classe, Rue
Granet, has been arrested in connection with the death of
a young girl under suspicious circumstances. There is also
an order of arrest against a foreign doctor who has it is
feared already left the country. Madame Réquin is also
accused for having caused the disappearance of a number of
new-born children confided to her care.”



The paper fell from my hand. Madame
Réquin, sage-femme de première classe, Rue
Granet! I had been surrounded with so much
suffering, so many tragedies had been enacted
before my eyes during these last years that I
had forgotten the whole affair. As I sat there
staring at the notice in the ‘Figaro’ it all came
back to me as vividly as had it happened
yesterday instead of three years ago, the dreadful night
when I had made the acquaintance of Madame
Réquin. As I sat sipping my tea and reading
the notice in the ‘Figaro’ over and over again,
I felt greatly pleased to know that this horrible
woman had been caught at last. I felt equally
pleased at the recollection that in that

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