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“ ‘I tell you…’ he said ‘We don’t know thelike that until we see it!’ And he looked ata terrible secret ‘We just don’t know’

“ ‘No, we don’t,’ I said

“ ‘I’ll tell you They took a stake, a wooden stake, rave, he took the stake with a haht to her breast I didn’t believe it! And then with one great blow he drove it right into her I tell you, I couldn’t have moved even if I’d wanted to; I was rooted there And then that fellow, that beastly fellow, he reached up for his shovel and with both his arht into the dead woman’s throat The head was off like that! He shut his eyes, his face contorted, and put his head to the side

“I looked at hi this wo theonup inside ainst an, and apparently she had been for some time

“Slowly Morgan

looked up at me, his eyes wild ‘It’s what they want to do with her,’ he said ‘With Emily! Well I won’t let theot to help , and his face so distorted now by his sudden desperation that I ht have recoiled from it despite myself ‘The salish, we’re civilized es!’

“ ‘Try to be cal out for him ‘I want you to tell me what happened then You and Emily’

“He was struggling for his bottle I drew it out of his pocket, and he took off the cap ‘That’s a fellow, Louis; that’s a friend,’ he said e to burn that corpse right there in the cemetery; and Emily was not to see that, not while I…’ He shook his head ‘There wasn’t a carriage to be found that would take us out of here; not a single one of theet us to a decent place!’

“ ‘But how did they explain it to you, Morgan?’ I insisted I could see he did not have much time left

“ ‘Va on his hand ‘Vaestured to the door with the bottle ‘A plague of vampires! All this in whispers, as if the devil hi at the door! Of course, God have mercy, they put a stop to it That unfortunate wo her way up nightly to feed on the rest of us!’ He put the bottle to his lips ‘Oh… God…’ he moaned

“I watched hi

“ ‘And E What with the fire out there and a decent dinner and a proper glass of wine She hadn’t seen that woman! She hadn’t seen what they’d done,’ he said desperately ‘Oh, I wanted to get out of here; I offered the to theht to want this money, a small fortune just to drive us out of here” ’

“ ‘But it wasn’t over…’ I whispered

“And I could see the tears gathering in his eyes, hiswith pain

“ ‘How did it happen to her?’ I asked him