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 sucking the young blood of the eight wretched keepers.

Her stupor lasted only a second. With a bound she was on me, and her claws sank into my neck.

I had clung to my revolver. I fired, and with one great belching hiccup, which spattered the walls with black blood, the vampire sank to the floor

that, Your Honor, is why you will find beside the bodies of Velitcho and Ossip the body of the Duchess Opoltchenska, officially deceased eight years ago and buried at that time in the cemetery of Saint-Guittou. 