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( 22 ) her into a faint, which continued during the whole of the time they were engaged in despatching her husband.

The two young officers now turned their attention to their sister, whom they raised from the ground, but she could hardly be persuaded of her safety, till they pointed to where blue beardBlue Beard [sic] lay extended lifeless.

Fatima, on recovering a little, tenderly embraced her deliverers: and the appearance of their sister Anne, who had come down from the top of the battlements, added to their happiness.

As all those horrid murders which had been committed by blue beardBlue Beard [sic] were unknown to his domestics, on whose credulity he imposed by falsehoods, which they had no means of detecting, Fatima and her brothers thought the most prupentprudent [sic] way to act, was to assemble them together, and then disclose the wickedness of their late master.

By the directions of Fatima, her two brothers conducted all the servants to the dreadful scene of her husband's cruelties, and then shewing them his dead body, related the whole occurrences which had taken place. They all said that his punishment was not adequate to what he deserved, and begged that