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Cawthorne found the door that gave access to his cousin's rooms wide open. He paused for a moment on the threshold, thinking, in a shocked fashion, how angered John would be if he knew. Then he remembered that John was dying, and he understood that Simon's carelessness was intentional. He left the door as it was and passed on, wondering dully at the power of the death to change.
Simon Vicars was seated at his master's bedside. He arose when Cawthorne entered, and gravely saluted.