what he wanted. Derues looked well.html">well at the man.html">man, and concluding from
that I am going back into the country this very evening."
"Very well! Bring your tools, spade, and pickaxe, and follow me."
They both went down to the cellar, and the mason.html">mason.html">mason.html">mason was ordered to dig
worked, Derues sat beside the chest.html">chest and read. When it was half done,
he wanted a trench of such a depth. Derues, who had probably
think I look a fool! I never yet heard of such a recipe for
Well, you can learn from me, Jean-Baptiste Ducoudray, a wine grower
thus buried for a year acquires the quality and characteristics of
the same it seems a little odd to me."
When he had finished, Derues asked him to help to drag the chest
bottles and arrange them: The mason agreed, but when he moved the
declaring that a smell such as that could not possibly proceed from
under the cellar, the pipe of which could be seen. It appeared to
it go again, and said positively that he could not execute Derues'
corpse. Then Derues threw himself at the man's feet and acknowledged
his house.html">house, and who had died there suddenly from an unknown malady,
he had decided to conceal the death and bury her here.
The mason listened, alarmed at this confidence, and not knowing
beat his breast and tore out his hair, calling on God and the saints
he was reading while the mason excavated: it was the Seven
died in my house, I assure you--died suddenly, before I could call a
condemned for a crime I did not commit. Do not ruin me! You leave
employed you, if this unhappy affair should ever be discovered. I do
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