94 (The Inferno)

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shattered his skull. I comforted my executioner,
and his wife whispered to me with tears that
she had long feared lest the same fate should
overtake her husband. A vear later the newspapers
announced that my friend’s eldest brother
had taken his life under circumstances which
seemed to indicate that he was out of his mind.
Thus three distinct blows descended on the head
of this man who had wished to play with
lightning.

“What a strange chance!” people will say.
And stranger, and more ominous still, every time
that I relate this history, I am punished for
doing so.

The fierce July heat broods over the city; life
is intolerable, and everything is malodorous. I
expect a catastrophe. In the street I find a scrap
of paper with the word “marten” written on it;
in another street a similar scrap with the word
“vulture” written by the same hand. Popoffsky
certainly has a resemblance to a marten as his
wife has to a vulture. Have they come to Paris
to kill me? He, the murderer, is capable of
everything after he has murdered wife and
children.

The perusal of the delightful book La joie de

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