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Chap. XXI. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF BEVERN.
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before a magistrate and revealing something he knew
concerning him. This he immediately did, and
Lyne-mark was arrested and lodged in the jail at Esrom.
The piece of stuff which the tailor possessed proved to
be part of the dress worn by the countess on the very
day of her fatal accident. Lynemark, by the aid of
his friend, escaped from prison, and, before his departure,
related to him the story of the countess’s unhappy end.
He said she had consented to give him a meeting, in
which he in vain persuaded her to break with Fechner,
remove to her estates in Holstein, and there espouse
him. She had promised to give him a definitive answer
that very night, but came to no decision. Miserable
at her want of feeling, he was about to quit her, when
she opened the door of the staircase and followed him
out; he endeavoured to seize from her hair a little knot
of ribbon, and succeeded; she, on her side, tried to
regain it, and, with a jerk, snatched it from him,
reeled, lost her balance, and fell headlong down below.
In vain he tried to save her: her dress gave way,
leaving in his hand the remnant discovered in his
pocket by the tailor. She fell with a piercing cry.
Frantic, he rushed after her; she still breathed, pressed
the hand of her lover, endeavoured to raise herself,
sobbed, her head fell heavily on his shoulder, and the
chill of death spread over her—she was dead!
Lynemark was afraid to confers the truth, so kept silence.
He later escaped to France and thence to Naples, where
a Neapolitan noble, jealous, but afraid to fight him,
denounced him to the police as member of a secret club.
He was tried and sentenced to be shot; his mother died
of grief soon after.
The palace has a melancholy, deserted air, and some
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