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Ferrol was mad as a hatter, I thought as I thanked him. Afterward I wondered whether it could have been in a lucid moment or in a fit of abstraction that he had married the woman who was charged with his death.
But the trial enlightened me, and now, in the dining-room at Oriol, the panorama of it returned. I was seated again at the press table and heard the ominous command: