Chapter 7
CONTAINS A SURPRISEThe first object brought to light, about two feet beneath the
surface, was a piece of dark gray woolen stuff which, when the mold
was removed, proved to be part of a woman's skirt.
With frantic eagerness I got into the hole we had made and
removed the soil with my hands, until I suddenly touched something
hard.
A body lay there, doubled up and crushed into the well-like hole
the men had dug.
Together we pulled it out, when, to my surprise, on wiping away
the dirt from the hard waxen features, I recognized it as the body
of Armida, the woman who had been my servant in Leghorn and who had
afterwards married Olinto. Both had been assassinated!
When Muriel gazed upon the dead woman's face she gave vent to an
expression of surprise. The body was eviden
