“I found Peyrou, who was waiting for me with my horses. I arrived here.”
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“... and she is no more.
“He lies by her side in the same tomb. The idea of murder pursues me. I am doubly criminal.
“My entire life will not suffice to expiate this murder, and...”
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The last letter which the casket contained was a letter addressed to Peyrou by a bargemaster in the neighbourhood of Aiguemortes five years after the events which we have just recorded, and the same year, no doubt, of the abduction of Erebus by the pirates on the coast of Languedoc.
Peyrou, who was then serving on board the galleys of religion with the commander, was in the secret of this strange and bloody tragedy.
The following letter was addressed to Malta, to which place he had followed the commander, who, five years after these fatal events had transpired, was still unwilling to enter France.
To M. Bernard Peyrou, Overseer-Patron of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows.