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entered with the watch; 'those are the murderers!'

"It was some time before we could learn the particulars of the terrible scene that presented itself to us, which, we were at length informed, had originated in a brutal and licentious contention for the favours of the unhappy wretch who had fainted, and who was accused of holding, while his antagonist stabbed him, the arm of the dying man.

"In the midst of the tumult, my eyes involuntarily returned every moment to the features of the miserable cause of this catastrophe: the remains of uncommon beauty might still be traced in a form and countenance