The Black Castle
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hand moved toward a piece of parchment before him.
"So, Monsieur, you think you have thwarted me. Your imagination plays you pretty tricks; you have killed your son because of them. I, Monsieur, have never left the ether, and yet I have my vengeance. But, Monsieur, if you think for one moment that you have escaped your death tonight, you delude yourself, for die tonight you will!"
The count stared at what had been written and a cold perspiration broke out upon his forehead.
Outside the storm raged furiously. The count tore the parchment into pieces and scattered them upon the floor. He ran to the window and shook his fist at the sky and cursed the God who had made him. And, as if in answer to that curse, the clouds parted and a streak of lightning reached out toward him.
From the village below, the people saw the lightning strike the castle. They saw a turret crumble to ruins and come crashing down the steep cliff to the plain, and heard a terrible cry echo and re-echo through the night.
And some affirm to this day that they heard very distinctly a mocking laugh carried along by the wind above the roar of the gale.
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