day after a lapse of over twenty years I am positive of the fact.
"But I was saying that three years later something new occurred. In excavating not far from the inn, some new bones were found, and you can well picture the stir that it caused. The Weisbachs were on everyone's tongue again. And the Scheffers had become famous overnight, as famous as the Weisbachs had been! The experts, however, did not agree on the age of the bones.
"In the meantime, first one, then two, and then three families who had had disappearances among their relations, claimed that they might quite possibly have been victims of the Scheffers, because they had taken a trip through French Switzerland. They went even so far as to establish the fact that a young man from Linz, who had abducted a girl of good family, had slept one night at the 'Inn of Blood.' At that, the Scheffers and their servants were arrested and I was called as one of the witnesses.
"Their guilt seemed established and there was no doubt that they would be sentenced, when we suddenly learned that the young man in question had married the young girl of good family in America, and that they were farmers in Minnesota! The Scheffers were acquitted. . . . And now my story is done."
"And nothing more was ever heard of the Italians?" Dorat demanded.
"Never."
"And the Scheffers are still going strong?" Captain Michel asked, and this time he was not joking.
"Yes, they are still there making money. I heard of them quite recently from a friend who passed through Soleure. The 'Inn of Blood' has become historical. People come from far and near to see it; only no one ever asks to spend the night in the 'travelers' room'!"
Another vivid story by Gaston Leroux, "The Woman With the Velvet Collar," will be published soon.
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