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In the deepest depths of misery, for long after the Dictator had left her, Marie lay staring wide-eyed into the darkness.
She was terrified at the awful thought of all that would follow the seizure of those papers in the Buhl cabinet, and she blamed herself in agonising bitterness that she had not burnt the most incriminating among them when her husband had been assassinated.