He paused before he said sadly,
“Three betrothed men, all decent, industrious workers, were killed the same night as your brother died and six of the Sáros group.”
“And the Radáks?” Ilona enquired.
“Besides your brother, four men were killed, one blinded and another lost his leg!”
Ilona gave a little cry of horror.
“Your brother’s identity was not known until the following morning after the bodies had been taken to the local Church for their relatives to claim them.”
It had been a senseless way for Julius to throw away his life, Ilona thought.
Yet she could understand that he found such nightly excursions exciting and entertaining simply because he must have been so bored at the Palace.
She did not suppose that as he grew older he had found it any easier to put up with his father’s
