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THE BRIDE OF THE SUN

À corpse, until then held upright by the closed door, fell into the room. Maria-Teresa, first to realize what it was, fell on her knees beside the body.

It was Huascar, whom she had driven out of that door and who had dragged himself there to die, a dagger in his heart.