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Page 142
Her face was radiant. It became lighted up magically. I knew in that
grim hour what a beautiful woman Madame de St�mer must have been. She
rested her hand upon Val Beverley's head, and looked at me with her
strange, still eyes.
"Be good to her, my friend," she whispered. "She is English, but not
cold like some. She, too, can love."
She closed her eyes and dropped back upon her pillows for the last
time.
CHAPTER XXXV
AN AFTERWORD
This shall be a brief afterword, for I have little else to say. As
Madame had predicted, all antidotes and restoratives were of no avail.
She had taken enough of some drug which she had evidently had in her
possession for this very purpose to ensure that there should be no
awakening, and although Dr. Rolleston was on the spot within half an
hour, Madame de St�mer was already past human aid.
There are perhaps one or two details which may be of interest. For
instance, as a result of the post-mortem examination of Colonel
Menendez, no trace of disease was discovered in any of the organs, but
from information supplied by his solicitors, Harley succeeded in
tracing the Paris specialist to whom Madame de St�mer had referred; and
he confirmed her statement in every particular. The disease, to which
he gave some name which I have forgotten, was untraceable, he declared,
by any means thus far known to science.
As we had anticipated, the bulk of Colonel Don Juan's wealth he had
bequeathed to Madame de St�mer, and she in turn had provided that all
of which she might die possessed should be divided between certain
charities and Val Beverley.
I thus found myself at the time when all these legal processes
terminated engaged to marry a girl as wealthy as she was beautiful.
Therefore, except for the many grim memories which it had left with me,
nothing but personal good fortune resulted from my sojourn at Cray's
Folly, beneath the shadow of that Bat Wing which had had no existence
outside the cunning imagination of Colonel Juan Menendez.
THE END
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