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"On my return to our native village, after an absence of some two months," continued Gilardoni, "I found that the priest, Lucia's brother, had departed. His successor -- a stranger -- received me very kindly; but when I revealed to him my painful situation, and asked his advice, he looked perfectly distressed. When I begged him to let me have a copy of the register of my marriage, he told me, with much agitation, that the book had been stolen."
"Stolen! -- by her? " exclaimed Paul Desfrayne.